diff --git a/Rewritten-docs.md b/Rewritten-docs.md index 5388dd4..eeca97e 100644 --- a/Rewritten-docs.md +++ b/Rewritten-docs.md @@ -1004,19 +1004,25 @@ chosen and implemented. #### Job Variables -As mentioned above worker has job directories but users who are writing and -managing job configurations do not know where they are (on some particular -worker) and how they can be accessed and written into configuration. For this -kind of task we have to introduce some kind of marks or signs which will -represent particular folders. Marks or signs can have form broadly used -variables. - -Variables can be used everywhere where filesystem paths are used within -configuration file. This will solve problem with specific worker environment and -specific hierarchy of directories. Final form of variables is `${...}` where -triple dot is textual description. This format was used because of special -dollar sign character which cannot be used within filesystem path, braces are -there only to border textual description of variable. +Considering the fact that jobs can be executed within the worker on different +machines with specific settings, it can be handy to have some kind of mechanism +in the job configuration which will hide these particular worker details, most +notably specific directory structure. For this purpose marks or signs can be +used and can have a form of broadly used variables. + +Variables in general can be used everywhere where configuration values (not +keys) are expected. This implies that substitution should be done after parsing +of job configuration, not before. The only usage for variables which was +considered is for directories within worker, but in future this might be subject +to change. + +Final form of variables is `${...}` where triple dot is textual description. +This format was used because of special dollar sign character which cannot be +used within paths of regular filesystems. Braces are there only to border +textual description of variable. + +Variables as such will solve problem with specific worker environment and most +notably specific hierarchy of directories. ### Broker @@ -1254,10 +1260,12 @@ But designing sandbox only for specific environment is possible, namely for C# and .NET. CLR as a virtual machine and runtime environment has a pretty good security support for restrictions and separation which is also transferred to C#. This makes it quite easy to implement simple sandbox within C# but there are -not any well known general purpose implementations. As said in previous -paragraph implementing our own solution is out of scope of project. But C# -sandbox is quite good topic for another project for example term project for C# -course so it might be written and integrated in future. +not any well known general purpose implementations. + +As mentioned in previous paragraphs implementing our own solution is out of +scope of project. But C# sandbox is quite good topic for another project for +example term project for C# course so it might be written and integrated in +future. ### Fileserver