short int jobs_in_queue; //

  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

	// I am futile!

}

/** Fill variables after crash / shutdown from XML dumps */

int start_data()

{

  struct stat buffer;

  if(stat(SYSCONFDIR "/data.xml", &buffer) == 0){

    // @TODO: retrieve total_finished_jobs and total_finished_frames from xml file

    fprintf(stderr,"Parsing XML files and restoring previous state...\n");

	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(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;

  dj->email = (char *)NULL;

  dj->jobnum = 0; /*< @todo there should be a central jobnum allocator and a way to save the maximum jobnumber allocated */

  dj->priority = 0;

  dj->completed_frames = 0;

  dj->assigned_frames = 0;

  dj->total_render_time = 0;

  dj->frameset = (struct frameset *)NULL; /*< @todo does frameset need to be initialized here? */

  return 0;

}

/**

  jobnum_t jobnum;

  int priority;  // 1 is lowest, 10 is highest, 0 means the job is done

  int completed_frames; // number of completed frames for stats/etc

  int assigned_frames; // number of assigned frames (that are not yet completed) for stats/etc

  int total_frames; // how many frames are in the animation for stats/etc (unassigned frames)

  int watchdog_forgiveness; // how many seconds till the frame is re-assigned (if client computer crashes etc);

  time_t total_render_time; // total seconds of time spent on all the completed frames

  char *output_format; /*< currently is the file extention of the request output format. @todo make this mime-type based/not a string */

  struct frameset *frameset;

};