else if(job->priority < current_job->priority){ // if job's priority is less than current_job's priority, insert job

      prev_job->next = job;                        // keep in mind 1 is the highest priority given to jobs, head has a

      job->next = current_job;                     // priority of zero so it will always be before other jobs

      break;

    }

    prev_job = current_job;

  } /* for(current_job) */

}

/**

   @arg head I may end up changing the head if job == head

 */

void change_job_priority(struct distrenjob *head, struct distrenjob *job, int new_priority){

  distrenjob_remove(head, job);

  job->priority = new_priority;

  struct distrenjob *current_job;

  struct distrenjob *prev_job = head;

  if(job->frameset[0].status == FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED)

    /* if job was not yet started */

    distrenjob_enqueue(head, job);

  else{ // if job has already been started then place it before the jobs with the same priority

    // iterate through linked list of jobs

    for(current_job = head; current_job != NULL; current_job = current_job->next){

      if(current_job == NULL){ // if it has reached the end of the list, add job there

        current_job = job;

        break;

      }

      else if(job->priority <= current_job->priority){ // if job's priority is less than or equal to current_job's priority, insert job

        prev_job->next = job;                        // keep in mind 1 is the highest priority given to jobs, head has a

        job->next = current_job;                     // priority of zero so it will always be before other jobs

        break;

      }

      prev_job = current_job;

    }

  }

}

/**

  Frame Finder: matches your computer up with a lovely frame to render

  TODO: Major issue here, the client needs to know the frame number, AND the job number!

  Notice that this function starts by looking at the oldest job first

	TODO: Link this up with the main() function to check if there are frames available or not and provide jobnum/framenum to the client

  @return 0 success, other: error

*/

int find_jobframe(struct distrenjob *head, struct distrenjob **job, struct frameset **frame)

{

  unsigned int frame_counter;

  short int your_job_type;

  unsigned short int found;

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;

  your_job_type = 0;

  found = 0;

  /* iterate through jobs from first to last */

  for(distrenjob_ptr = head->next; !found && !distrenjob_ptr; distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_ptr->next)

    for(frame_counter = 0; !found && frame_counter < distrenjob_ptr->total_frames; frame_counter ++)

      if(distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].status == FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED)

	{

	  found = 1;

	  your_job_type = distrenjob_ptr->type;

	  distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_ASSIGNED;

	  distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter].start_time = clock();

	  distrenjob_ptr->assigned_frames++;

	}

  if(!found)

    {

      fprintf(stderr, "No more jobs to render\n");

      sleep(1); /*< @todo eliminate the need for this line*/

      return 1;

    }

  *job = distrenjob_ptr;

  *frame = &distrenjob_ptr->frameset[frame_counter];

  return 0;

}

/** Checks for dead, laggy, or stale slaves */

void frame_watchdog(struct distrenjob *distrenjob_head)

{

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;

  unsigned int counter;

  /*watchdog_forgiveness = seconds of forgiveness before frame is re-assigned */

  distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_head;

  for(distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_head; distrenjob_ptr; distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_ptr->next)

    /* iterate through jobs */

    for(counter = 0; counter < distrenjob_ptr->total_frames; counter ++)

      /* iterate through all frames for this job*/

        if((distrenjob_ptr->frameset[counter].start_time + distrenjob_ptr->watchdog_forgiveness) < clock())

          /*

            If frame is not completed within the number of seconds specified by watchdog_forgiveness

            Then change the frame status to unassigned

           */

          distrenjob_ptr->frameset[counter].status = FRAMESETSTATUS_UNASSIGNED;

      }

/**

   Finds a distrenjob struct based on the jobnum

   @arg jobnum job number to search for

   @return NULL on job doesn't exist

 */

struct distrenjob *distrenjob_get(struct distrenjob *head, jobnum_t jobnum)

{

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;

  /*

    The conditions of the for loop will leave distrenjob_ptr at NULL if the end of the list is reached. It will leave it pointing to the correct job if it is found.

   */

  for(distrenjob_ptr = head;

      distrenjob_ptr

        && distrenjob_ptr->jobnum != jobnum;

      distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_ptr->next);

  return distrenjob_ptr;

}

/**

   Removes a distrenjob from the distrenjob linked list.

   @arg head a double pointer. the head pointer will have to be changed if distrenjob == *head. Thus, make sure that the pointer points to the pointer to the head that all functions use. (I'm going to come back to this and misunderstand myself ;-))

 */

void distrenjob_remove(struct distrenjob *head, struct distrenjob *bj)

{

  struct distrenjob *previous_distrenjob;

  for(previous_distrenjob = head;

      previous_distrenjob

	&& previous_distrenjob->next != bj; /*< stop on the distrenjob that comes before bj */

      previous_distrenjob = previous_distrenjob->next)

    /* all of the action is in the definition of the for loop itself */;

  /*

    This removes references to bj from the linked list. I.E., we now skip bj when iterating through the list

  */

  previous_distrenjob->next = bj->next;

  general_info.jobs_in_queue--;

}

/* Grabs config info from confs */

int distrend_do_config(int argc, char *argv[], struct distrend_config **config)

{

  cfg_opt_t myopts_listen[] =

    {

      CFG_SIMPLE_STR("type", NULL),

      CFG_SIMPLE_STR("path", NULL),

      CFG_SIMPLE_INT("port", NULL),

      CFG_END()

    };

  cfg_opt_t myopts[] =

    {

      CFG_SEC("listen",  /* this must be imported into struct listens (which must still be declared) */

          myopts_listen,

          CFGF_MULTI),

      CFG_SIMPLE_STR("datadir", NULL),

      CFG_END()

    };

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob;

  int tmp;

  xmlinit();

  /*

   * test xml2distrenjob()

   */

  tmp = xml2distrenjob(&distrenjob, "distrenjob.xml.example");

  if(tmp)

    fprintf(stderr, "xml2distrenjob() returned %d. Try to cd to distren/doc if you want to test out the xml2distrenjob() function. (This will only fix this error if the error is due to an inability of the xml library to access distrenjob.xml.example)\n", tmp);

  else

    fprintf(stderr, "using email ``%s'' for user ``%s'' -- reading in XML files and pulling data from them using libxml2+XPath works!!!\n", distrenjob->email, distrenjob->submitter);

  fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d running config\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);

  *config = malloc(sizeof(struct distrend_config));

  myopts[1].simple_value = &(*config)->datadir;

  options_init(argc, argv, &(*config)->mycfg, myopts, "server", &(*config)->options);

  fprintf(stderr, "using %s as datadir\n", (*config)->datadir);

  xmlcleanup();

  return 0;

}

int distrend_config_free(struct distrend_config *config)

{

  options_free(config->options);

  free(config);

  return 0;