else{

    // Throw error.

  }

jobnum++; // Advance the jobnumber for the next queued job

}

/*

  Status Report Generator: figures out how much of the job is done, where jobnum corresponds to the job number

*/

void status_report_generator(struct blendjob *blendjobs_head)

{

  struct blendjob *blendjob_ptr;

  unsigned short workers_working; /*< used to count the total number of workers working */

  unsigned int numjobs; /*< used to track number of jobs */

  blendjob_ptr = blendjobs_head;

  workers_working = 0;

  numjobs = 0;

  while(blendjob_ptr)

    {

      if(blendjob_ptr->priority != 0)

	/* If the job is not done, scan it */

	{

	  unsigned int framecounter;  /*< to scan through frames */

	  unsigned long finished_frames; /*< variable that counts the completed frames */

	  unsigned int pending_frames; /*< variable that counts the assigned frames */

	  float percent_frames_finished;  /*< variable that stores the percent done of the blendjob */

	  unsigned int total_time;  /*< total time taken to render all the completed frames for a job */

	  framecounter = 0;

	  finished_frames = 0;

	  pending_frames = 0;

	  percent_frames_finished = 0;

	  total_time = 0;

	  while(framecounter < blendjob_ptr->total_frames)

	    /* scans through frames, based on their status it runs a statement(s) */

	    {

	      if(blendjob_ptr->frameset[framecounter].frame_status == 2)

		/* If the frame is done */

		{

		  finished_frames ++;

		  total_time += blendjob_ptr->frameset[framecounter].time_to_render;

		}

	      if(blendjob_ptr->frameset[framecounter].frame_status == 1)

		/* If the frame is assigned */

		{

		  pending_frames ++;

		  workers_working ++;

		}

	      framecounter ++;

	    } /* while(framecounter < blendjob_ptr->total_frames) */

	  // find the percent of completed frames

	  percent_frames_finished = (finished_frames / blendjob_ptr->total_frames) * 100; /*< @LordofWar: extraneous parentheses! */

	  /* updates values in the blendjob struct */

	  blendjob_ptr->completed_frames = finished_frames;

	  blendjob_ptr->assigned_frames = pending_frames;

	  blendjob_ptr->percent_done = percent_frames_finished;

	  blendjob_ptr->avg_render_time = (total_time / finished_frames); /*< extraneous parentheses! */

	  blendjob_ptr->time_remaining = (blendjob_ptr->avg_render_time * (blendjob_ptr->total_frames - finished_frames)); /*< extraneous parentheses! */

	  if(finished_frames == blendjob_ptr->total_frames)

	    /* If all frames are complete */

	    {

	      blendjob_ptr->priority = 0; /*< set priority to zero to indicate job is complete */

	      general_info.total_finished_jobs++; /*< add one to the total finished jobs */

	    }

	  else if (finished_frames > blendjob_ptr->total_frames)

	    /* just in case ;-) */

	    {

	      fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d: finished_frames (%lu) > blendjob_ptr->total_frames (%d)",

		      __FILE__, __LINE__, 

		      finished_frames, 

		      blendjob_ptr->total_frames);

	      abort();

	    }

	}

      general_info.rendering_clients = workers_working; /*< should this be a +=? */

      blendjob_ptr = blendjob_ptr->next; /*< This is the essence of linked lists and iterating through them */

      numjobs ++;

    } /* while(blendjob_ptr) */

  general_info.jobs_in_queue = (highest_jobnum - general_info.total_finished_jobs); /*< extraneous parentheses! */

}

// **** Structure Builder: This function creates frame array based on the total number of frames to be rendered, which will then be parsed by function frame_farmer.

  int jobnum_new = highest_jobnum + 1; /* global vars will someday leave us  */

	job->frameset = malloc(sizeof(struct frameset) * numframes);

	if(!job->frameset)

	  fprintf(stderr, "error allocating memory");

	job->jobnum = jobnum_new;

	  /* This builds the array, with the array starting at zero and the frame_num starting at sframe */

	highest_jobnum++; // After it has created the job, it adds one to the highest_jobnum interger

}

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

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

int frame_finder(){

	int your_frame = 0;  // your_frame is an interger value that will be given to the client as the frame number to render

	int finder_jobnum = 0;

	int frameset_count = 0; // the frameset number, note* frames in an animation don't start at zero

	short int done = 0;

	short int priority = 10;

	while(priority >= 1){ // start the scan for the next job with the highest priority, decreases priority before it loops

		finder_jobnum = hcfjob + 1; // reset it to start scanning at first uncompleted job for the pass at each priority level

		while(finder_jobnum <= highest_jobnum){  // This keeps increasing the finder_jobnum until it is higher than the highest_jobnum

			if(blendjob[finder_jobnum].priority == priority){  // looks for a job with the current priority value

				done = 1;									  // notice it starts by looking at the oldest job first

				break;

			}

			if((done) == 1)  // If it has found a job with the current priority value, it will break out of the loop

				break;    // If none is found it goes to the next job to see if it is of the current priority value

			else

				finder_jobnum++;

		} // End of increasing finder_jobnum

		if(done == 1) // if job has been found, it lets it out of the priority changer loop

			break;

		priority--; // end of decreasing priority

	}

	while(your_frame < blendjob[finder_jobnum].total_frames){ // Finds the frameset number with a frame that needs to be rendered

		if (blendjob[finder_jobnum].frameset[frameset_count].frame_status == 0)  // If frame that is not assigned has been found, frameset_count is not changed

			break;																// and frameset_count is used to give the frame number later in this funciton

		frameset_count++;  // If frame is assigned or done, it goes to next frame

	}

blendjob[jobnum].frameset[frameset_count].frame_status++; // sets the value of the frame to 2, which means its taken

your_frame = blendjob[jobnum].frameset[frameset_count].frame_num; //  Takes the frameset found in the while statement above, and extracts the frame number from it and assigns it to the int your_frame

if(your_frame == 0)  // If that job had no open frames for some reason, run the status report generator so that

	status_report_generator();  //the job priority can be changed to 0

blendjob[jobnum].frameset[frameset_count].start_time = clock();

return your_frame; // your_frame is returned as the frame to be rendered

}

void blend_frame_watchdog(){

  short int watchdog_forgiveness = 3; // Hours to wait on a frame before re-assigning it

  int num1 = hcfjob + 1;

  while(num1 <= highest_jobnum){  // counts up through all the jobs

    int num2 = 0;

    while(num2 <= blendjob[num1].total_frames){ // Counts up through all the frames

      if((blendjob[num1].frameset[num2].start_time + (watchdog_forgiveness * 3600)) < clock()) // If frame is not completed within the number of hours specified by watchdog_forgiveness

			  blendjob[num1].frameset[num2].frame_status = 0;								   // Then change the frame status to unassigned

      num2++;

    }

    num1++;

  }

}

/* ************************** Main ************************* */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

//// Begin Getopt Sample, EDITME!Sometime

		   int aflag = 0;

	       int bflag = 0;

	       char *cvalue = NULL;

	       int index;

	       int c;

	       opterr = 0;

	       while ((c = getopt (argc, argv, "abc:")) != -1)

	         switch (c)

	           {

	           case 'a':

	             aflag = 1;

	             break;

	           case 'b':

	             bflag = 1;

	             break;