Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Path: ukc!uknet!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!terra.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!wolff
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: long group name bug / unique tid question
Message-ID: <Y0ZNB6CV@math.fu-berlin.de>
Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
Nntp-Posting-Host: umlaut.inf.fu-berlin.de
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 17:21:51 GMT
Lines: 14

1. Bug report and warning:
   The length of group names by which groups can uniquely be identified 
   is apparently restricted. I assigned long group names (ca. 60 characters) 
   and such a group was not recognized from another machine. There was no 
   error message and there is no apparent documentation on a length limit.
   (Will this be corrected in the next release?)

2. Is there a guarantee that a used tid will not be recycled once the 
   process having it terminated? (The manual says the pvmd is free to use 
   local process ids as part of the tid but it is not required to do so. 
   Furthermore local process ids might be recycled long before the full 
   range of possible pvm tids would overflow.)

Thomas Wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de

