Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: "John Schuette" <jfschuette@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: 3.4b4 WinNT questions/problems
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:57:27 -0600
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Three things:

How does PVM handle mixed virtual machines (some WinNt, some Unix
hosts)?...my version (3.4 beta 4) seems to only know "/" path separators and
"$" environment variables while WinNT uses "\" and "%...%". I can hack the
code in the rexec function to do one or the other, but what's the strategy
for handling both?  It would be nice if the WinNT rexecd could translate
Unix-style paths/environment variables into WinNT-style, but mine (Ataman)
doesn't seem to. (Of course, it would be nicer if WinNT USED Unix-style...

When hoster launches pvmd on a remote WinNT host, I see it start, but then
the remote host closes the socket and I get an error back in my code on the
master. Any ideas?  I'm running Ataman's rexecd on both sides and it seems
to work from the command line (rexec remoteCPU dir | more, etc.)  I can run
multiple pvm hosts on the same cpu as the master, so I _think_ my logic is
ok, or close to ok.

And finally, when I get pvmd launched on remote WinNT machines...it seems to
get clobbered the next time someone logs off that machine's console. Is that
right?  I would have assumed the job would keep running.

Thanks loads,
John Schuette