unsigned short int free_clients;

  unsigned short int rendering_clients;//

  unsigned short int total_finished_jobs; //

  unsigned int total_frames_rendered; //

  unsigned int highest_jobnum;

} general_info;

/*

  internally defined funcs's prototypes

*/

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

void distrenjob_enqueue(struct distrenjob *head, struct distrenjob *job);

void mortition(struct distrenjob *head, struct distrenjob *job);

/* Global Vars, try to cut down on these */

jobnum_t jobnum = 0; // The next job number to create in the queue

int hcfjob; // Highest consecutively finished job

int highest_jobnum; // The job number of the most recently created job, this is used when creating new jobs

/* ********************** Functions ************************* */

    {

      sprintf(path_and_number, "stor/job%d/out/%d.%s", job->jobnum, (counter + job->frameset[0].num), job->output_format);

      if(stat(path_and_number, &buffer) != -1)

        {

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

          job->completed_frames--;

          isJobDone = 0; // if a missing frame is found, set isJobDone to false

        }

    }

  if(isJobDone)

    {

      general_info.jobs_in_queue--;

    }

}

/**

   creates a structure from starting data, then calls another function to actually add that struct to the queue

*/

void prepare_distrenjob(struct distrenjob *head, int type, char *name, char *submitter, char *email, int priority, int start_frame, int end_frame)

{

  int counter2;

  int counter;

      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){

  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;

        && 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 ;-))

 */

{

  struct distrenjob *previous_distrenjob;

        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),