From: salo@cray.com (Eric Salo)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: How to kill mpi processes?
Date: 28 Aug 1998 15:51:13 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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> If I start mpirun from the command line and type CTRL-C
> in the console, all jobs are killed. So I thought, simulating
> CTRL-C by sending SIGINT to mpirund would work, but it does
> not.

Very strange. I would have expected this to work.

> Is there any difference between foreground and background
> processes? How can I make my program a foreground process when
> I execv it? Perhaps that will help..

Shouldn't make a difference, unless I'm missing something obvious.
One of the MPICH folks will have to take it from here, since I
don't know how their implementation works.

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Eric Salo      Silicon Graphics      salo@sgi.com