From: german@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es (German Jose Gomez Garcia)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: PVM with Shared Memory under Linux?
Date: 2 Feb 1999 22:28:16 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Oviedo
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	Hello,
	I'm new to PVM, and I would like if it is possible to use the
Shared Memory Linux (with linuxthreads, now included in standard glibc)
with PVM. I've been looking at the sources, and it seem not extremely
difficult, as the Solaris port already use the pthread.h header and
functions defined there, the only problem I've found when trying to
compile it with the SHM extensions is that some macros get not defined,
and I cannot guess a correct value for them (macros like MAXPAGEHDR,
etc). I think the problem is just caused because the #ifdef statements
in the headers doesn't recognize my Linux system as a SHM system, so if
anybody has already done it, please point me in the right direction.

	If anybody is working in SHM on Linux and need a test ground
don't doubt on contacting me, I currently have two dual PII at home,
although I have low end HPLAN Plus ethernet cards I think it could be a
valid platform. I have my own compiled GNU/Linux system (with much beta
and alpha software) and it is a non critical system (it's at home for
now), the development is on egcs-1.1.1 or gcc-2.8.1 and glibc-2.0.7,
and I usually use latest development kernels (2.2.1-ac3 at the time of
writing this).

	Thanks, and keep up the good work.

	- german


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