From 36f0a0d9f16b8ba43a12bcfcedf41de877a31553 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morris Jette <jette@schedmd.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:31:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment about job array data structures

Try to avoid problems when the job record is changed.
---
 src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c b/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
index 9104986c34b..0d2a2dd1ff0 100644
--- a/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
+++ b/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
@@ -2770,7 +2770,7 @@ extern void rehash_jobs(void)
 	}
 }
 
-/* Create an exact copy of an existing job record.
+/* Create an exact copy of an existing job record for a job array.
  * Assumes the job has no resource allocaiton */
 struct job_record *_job_rec_copy(struct job_record *job_ptr)
 {
@@ -5645,6 +5645,10 @@ static void _list_delete_job(void *job_entry)
 		fatal("job hash error");
 	*job_pptr = job_ptr->job_next;
 
+/*
+ * NOTE: Anything you free here also needs to be allocated memory copied
+ * when a job array is created in _job_rec_copy() above
+ */
 	delete_job_details(job_ptr);
 	xfree(job_ptr->account);
 	xfree(job_ptr->alias_list);
-- 
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