Actually the client doesn't make the decision to abort tasks;
it's instructed to do so by the scheduler.

It's possible to discriminate most cases: see
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/JobStatus

-- David

On 18-Apr-2011 1:29 AM, Bernd Machenschalk wrote:
> HI!
>
> I recently learned that newer clients automatically abort tasks that have not
> been started and are already past the deadline. I like this better than the
> previous "... consider aborting it" message. However this is something the
> user has no control about. So the text "aborted by user" at various places
> (at least in the web code) is outdated and somewhat misleading.
>
> Additionally I, as a project manager, would really like to know whether a
> task was aborted by the client because it passed the deadline (which might
> suggest an extension of the deadlines), or whether it was aborted manually
> for other reasons. Is there a way to distinguish these two cases? If not,
> could there be made one e.g. by using a different exit status? The way the
> web code should be updated / fixed would clearly depends on whether these
> cases can be distinguished.
>
> Best, Bernd
>
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