Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm From: Clark Dorman Subject: Re: pvm_pkmesg not in pvm3.h Organization: PSINet Date: 05 Mar 1998 16:39:18 -0500 Message-ID: Clark Dorman writes: [snip] > While it does compile, it appears that there is no pvm_pkmesg or > pvm_pkmesgbody in pvm3.h, so I get a warning: [snip] Many thanks to James who emailed me to let me know that pvm_pkmesg is basically for internal use. I can be used, but should be added to pvm3.h, and since it isn't really part of the user interface it isn't supported. Which also means that someday it may go away, or be replaced. So, the issue comes up about how to forward messages around, and in a way that will be supported in the future. If I have a message handler B, and I send a message from A to B, and B is supposed to forward it to C, how should I do that? The problem is that I have a variety of different message types, and I don't want to have to unpack the different messages (each with it's own routine) and repack them just to get the message to C. -- Clark Dorman "Evolution is cleverer than you are." http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/dorman/D.html -Francis Crick