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QDEL(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual QDEL(1P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The
Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
qdel — delete batch jobs
qdel job_identifier...
A batch job is deleted by sending a request to the batch server
that manages the batch job. A batch job that has been deleted is
no longer subject to management by batch services.
The qdel utility is a user-accessible client of batch services
that requests the deletion of one or more batch jobs.
The qdel utility shall request a batch server to delete those
batch jobs for which a batch job_identifier is presented to the
utility.
The qdel utility shall delete batch jobs in the order in which
their batch job_identifiers are presented to the utility.
If the qdel utility fails to process any batch job_identifier
successfully, the utility shall proceed to process the remaining
batch job_identifiers, if any.
The qdel utility shall delete each batch job by sending a Delete
Job Request to the batch server that manages the batch job.
The qdel utility shall not exit until the batch job corresponding
to each successfully processed batch job_identifier has been
deleted.
None.
The qdel utility shall accept one or more operands that conform to
the syntax for a batch job_identifier (see Section 3.3.1, Batch
Job Identifier).
Not used.
None.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
qdel:
LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base
Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Section 8.2,
Internationalization Variables the precedence of
internationalization variables used to determine the
values of locale categories.)
LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values
of all the other internationalization variables.
LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences
of bytes of text data as characters (for example,
single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in
arguments).
LC_MESSAGES
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to
standard error.
LOGNAME Determine the login name of the user.
Default.
An implementation of the qdel utility may write informative
messages to standard output.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
None.
None.
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
In addition to the default behavior, the qdel utility shall not be
required to write a diagnostic message to standard error when the
error reply received from a batch server indicates that the batch
job_identifier does not exist on the server. Whether or not the
qdel utility waits to output the diagnostic message while
attempting to locate the job on other servers is implementation-
defined.
The following sections are informative.
None.
None.
The qdel utility allows users and administrators to delete jobs.
The qdel utility provides functionality that is not otherwise
available. For example, the kill utility of the operating system
does not suffice. First, to use the kill utility, the user might
have to log in on a remote node, because the kill utility does not
operate across the network. Second, unlike qdel, kill cannot
remove jobs from queues. Lastly, the arguments of the qdel utility
are job identifiers rather than process identifiers, and so this
utility can be passed the output of the qselect utility, thus
providing users with a means of deleting a list of jobs.
Because a set of jobs can be selected using the qselect utility,
the qdel utility has not been complicated with options that
provide for selection of jobs. Instead, the batch jobs to be
deleted are identified individually by their job identifiers.
Historically, the qdel utility has been a component of NQS, the
existing practice on which it is based. However, the qdel utility
defined in this volume of POSIX.1‐2017 does not provide an option
for specifying a signal number to send to the batch job prior to
the killing of the process; that capability has been subsumed by
the qsig utility.
A discussion was held about the delays of networking and the
possibility that the batch server may never respond, due to a down
router, down batch server, or other network mishap. The
DESCRIPTION records this under the words ``fails to process any
job identifier''. In the broad sense, the network problem is also
an error, which causes the failure to process the batch job
identifier.
The qdel utility may be removed in a future version.
Chapter 3, Batch Environment Services, kill(1p), qselect(1p),
qsig(1p)
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8,
Environment Variables
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
(C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between
this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard,
the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee
document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .
Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page
are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of
the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
IEEE/The Open Group 2017 QDEL(1P)
Pages that refer to this page: qalter(1p), qselect(1p), qsig(1p)
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