distrenjob->width = width;

  distrenjob->height = height;

  distrenjob->total_frames = (end_frame - start_frame + 1); /* sets the total number of frames in animation for status purposes */

  distrenjob->frameset = malloc(sizeof(struct frameset) * distrenjob->total_frames);

  if(!distrenjob->frameset)

    {

      distrenjob_free(&distrenjob);

      return 1;

    }

  /* prepares all the frames by setting that status to "unassigned" */

  counter2 = start_frame;

    distrenjob->frameset[counter].num = counter2;

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

    counter2++;

  }

  /* add job to queue */

  makeJobDataXML(distrenjob);

  distrenjob_enqueue(head, distrenjob);

  general_info.jobs_in_queue++;

  updateJobListXML(head);

  distrenjob->submitter = (char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"submitter");

  distrenjob->priority = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"priority"));

  cur = cur->xmlChildrenNode;

  distrenjob->width = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"width"));

  distrenjob->height = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"number"));

  cur = cur->next;

  start_frame = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"start_frame"));

  distrenjob->total_frames = atoi((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"end_frame")) - start_frame + 1;

  distrenjob->output_format = (char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"output_format");

  cur = cur->next;

  distrenjob->watchdog_forgiveness = atoi((char*)xmlNodeListGetString(doc, cur->xmlChildrenNode, 1));

  xmlFreeDoc(doc);

  // load up stats.xml file to retrieve data

  _distren_asprintf(&file_name, "stor/job%d/stats.xml", job_number);

  doc = xmlParseFile(file_name);

  cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);

  distrenjob->total_render_time = (time_t)atol((char*)xmlGetProp(cur, (xmlChar*)"total_render_time"));

  xmlFreeDoc(doc);

  restoreJobState(distrenjob);

  return distrenjob;

}

int updateJobStatsXML(struct distrenjob *job)

{

	  xmlTextWriterPtr writer;

	  char *tmp; // temporarily holds strings to be given to the xml writer

	  _distren_asprintf(&tmp, "stor/job%d/stats.xml", job->jobnum);

	  // create xml document at the location tmp with no compression