Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Antonio Vieiro Varela <antonio@antispam.faraday.usc.es>
Subject: Re: message receiving in PVM
Organization: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. SPAIN
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:36:04 +0100
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On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 chiasm@cortex.rutgers.edu wrote:

> Task A is sending a bunch of messages to Task B, all
> with the same message tag.  When Task B probes for
> the message, is there a way to make it automatically get
> the latest message that A sent, rather than the
> earliest?

  As far as I know PVM was designed so that the first sent message
  was received first, thank god. Otherwise the communication between
  tasks would be a real mess.

  The easiest way I see to do what you want is to do a stack of messages.

  Best of luck,
  Antonio