From: "Fabrizio Santini" <santifa@tin.it>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Bug on Pvm 3.4 beta6?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:13:40 +0200
Organization: TIN
Message-Id: <7ksstj$pc5$1@nslave1.tin.it>
Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8511


Hi everybody...
Do you know if there is any bug on function pvm_probe of pvm 3.4 beta6?
I've a master process that sends to two (or more) slaves processes some
messages by pvm_mcast,
but sometime a slave (only 1 or 2 on 5) doesn't catch a message in queue.
Usually the slave main cycle is:

    if (pvm_probe(-1, MessageTag) > 0) {
        do something....
    }

The master process make a pvm_mcast(Tids, NumTids, MessageTag), so I can see
on xpvm the message to arrive to slaves, but the slave doesn't see anything.
All slave processes are copies made with spawn.
May you help me? I think that it's why pvm is a beta, but i'm not quite
sure.