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Correct a bug in consecutive steps management due to asynchronous step completions
When using consecutive steps, it appears that in some cases, the time required by the slurmstepd on the execution nodes to inform the controler of the completion of the step is higher than the time required to request the following step. In that scenario, the controler can reject the step by returning the error code ESLURM_REQUESTED_NODE_CONFIG_UNAVAILABLE even if the step could be executed if all the former steps were correctly finished. This can be reproduced by launching consecutive steps and introducing dalys in the spank epilog on the execution nodes. The behavior is changed to only defer the execution of the step by returning ESLURM_NODES_BUSY when all the available nodes are not idle considering the former steps.
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