Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Alexey Yurievich Starikovsky <alex@cda.ipmce.su>
Subject: Re: X and pvm
Organization: Compass Design Automation Moscow
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:23:51 +0400
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Simon Knee wrote:
> look at "pvm_getfds (&fds)".  This will return all of the file
OK. Looking at source: check comment...
lpvm.c:pvm_getfds(fds)          /* XXX this function kinda sucks */>
This is for single processor...
and in 'lpvmshmem.c':  for multiprocessors...
int
pvm_getfds(fds)		/* XXX this function kinda sucks */
	int **fds;			/* fd list return */
{
	int cc;

	cc = PvmNotImpl; >>>>> I think this means 'not implemented'???
	return (cc < 0 ? lpvmerr("pvm_getfds", cc) : cc);
}

>descriptors that PVM has in use - you can then use XtAppAddInput so that

If in any moment number of descriptors will change I will still use old
values.

> any messages you get via PVM will appear as X events.

Thanks,
	Alex Starikovsky
Moscow Institute of Phisics and Technology.