Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: rohit@memcad.com
Subject: Re: pipe corrupted in spawned process
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:21:17 -0600
Message-ID: <6fbea3$heh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote

>That will never work. If you fork/exec, the child inherits the file
>descriptors and can use them because of that, but in your case a whole
>new process is started (not necessarily on the same host).


I see your point for remote processes, but on the local host, doesn't
pvm_spawn() do a fork/exec anyway ? ( Unless it contacts the pvmd to do
this, in which case, you're right, it wouldn't work).Thanks

Rohit

-----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==-----
http://www.dejanews.com/   Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading