{

      // while frame hasn't been found, and your_frame is less than the length of the frameset array

      for(your_frame; !found && your_frame < distrenjob_ptr->total_frames; your_frame++)

        {

          if(distrenjob_ptr->frameset[your_frame].status == 0)

            {

              found = 1;

              your_job_type = distrenjob_ptr->type;

              distrenjob_ptr->frameset[your_frame].status = 1;

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

              break;

            }

        }

    }

// end of while statement... job must be found or linked list must be ended to get out of here

      if(!found)

        {

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

          return 1;

        }

    // the actual frame number to be rendered by the client is start_frame + your_frame

      /* should the job be removed now? ANSWER: well, if a computer decides not to return their frame then we lost our data... so its not done yet. */

      fprintf(stderr, "Job %d is finished, this is probably the place to call the job-removal function\n", distrenjob_ptr->jobnum);

      /* @TODO: At this point, all slaves should be instructed to delete the source data for this job. */

  return 0;

}

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

void blend_frame_watchdog(struct distrenjob *distrenjob_head)

{

  unsigned short int watchdog_forgiveness; /*< seconds to wait on a frame before re-assigning it */

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob_ptr;

  unsigned int counter;

  watchdog_forgiveness = 1; /*< hours of forgiveness before frame is re-assigned @TODO: Make this more user-configurable (maybe per-job), 3 hours is a LONG time */

  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*/

      {