Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: "S. Wendy Cheng" <wendyc@syl.sea.nec.com>
Subject: Re: problem with C fork function
Organization: NEC-CNAD 
Date: 20 Mar 1998 17:58:38 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd53e6$167f31e0$ed27f183@emily>



Yves Pizzuto <Yves.Pizzuto@epfl.ch> wrote in article
<35126E80.59E2@epfl.ch>...
> Hi,
> 
> (I work with mpCC compiler on a IBM-SP2 of 6 nodes)
> 
> [Question]
>   I have a probleme with the C fork function.
>   Do you know if its possible of use this function with MPI or
>   if there are some restrictions ?
> 

I don't know much about the newer software releases. However, for  
SP2 MPI releases in the field as (and before) last October (10/97), 
the "fork" function is not supported. More specifically, after the
"forking",
the child process is not able to use MPI's lower layer communication 
stacks. 
   
Wendy Cheng (v-sweche@microsoft.com)