feat: adding service jobs, i.e. the ability to define jobs that provide a resource for consumers (like a shared memory device or a database), and will be automatically terminated by Snakemake once all consumers are finished. #1413
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Description
THis PR adds service jobs to Snakemake. Such jobs are executed along with all their consumers and automatically terminated once all consumers are finished. This can for example be used to model the loading of common resources into shared memory, ramdisks, database access, etc.
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