Re: New behavior proposal --halt -% with job killing

[Ole Tange]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25 2015, Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> wrote:
>
>> How about:
>>
>>   --halt 2,25% == --halt 25%,2
:
> While at it, it would probably be nice to avoid the magic numbers
> (though they'd probably need to stick around for
> compatibility). Something like
>
> --halt on-fail,25%,no-cleanup (aka --halt 2,25%)
> --halt on-success,50%,cleanup (aka --halt -1,50%)
> --halt on-fail,cleanup (aka --halt 1)
> --halt never (aka --halt 0)

I agree with your observation on magic numbers, but I really do not
like these long names.

I would also like if we could re-use terminology from something
existing, so that there would be some familiarity with with the
concept already.


/Ole