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Explicitly state that cancelling a job step does not release a resource

allocation (just for Jose Millovich).
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.TH SCANCEL "1" "November 2003" "scancel 0.3" "Slurm components"
.TH SCANCEL "1" "June 2004" "scancel 0.3" "Slurm components"
.SH "NAME"
scancel \- Used to signal jobs or job steps that are under the control of Slurm.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
......@@ -88,10 +88,15 @@ SCANCEL_USER
SCANCEL_VERBOSE
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
.SH "NOTES"
.TP
If multiple filters are supplied (e.g. \fB\-\-partition\fR and \fB\-\-name\fR) only the jobs satisfying all of the filtering options will be signaled.
.TP
If a signal value of "KILL" (the default value) is to be sent to an entire job, this will result in the job's termination and its resource allocation being released.
.LP
If multiple filters are supplied (e.g. \fB\-\-partition\fR and \fB\-\-name\fR) only the
jobs satisfying all of the filtering options will be signaled.
.LP
If a signal value of "KILL" (the default value) is to be sent to an entire job, this will
result in the job's termination and its resource allocation being released.
.LP
Cancelling a job step will not result in a job being terminated.
The job must be cancelled to release a resource allocation.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.TP
Send SIGTERM to steps 1 and 3 of job 1234:
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