Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: weisz@edvz.tuwien.ac.at (Willy Weisz)
Subject: Re: xpvm1.0 and "hostfile"
Organization: EDV-Zentrum der TU Wien
Date: 22 Jun 1994 15:00:31 GMT
Message-ID: <2u9jmf$4mq@email.tuwien.ac.at>

In article <1994Jun17.181413.7280@cs.cornell.edu>, ladanyi@cs.cornell.edu (La'szlo' Lada'nyi) writes:
|> cfreese@super.org (Craig F. Reese) writes:
|> 
|> .....
|> 
|> >  It appears to me (both by experiment and by reading the
|> >  source code) that xpvm pretty much ignores any host options
|> >  in the hostfile (".xpvm_hosts").
|> 
|> .......
|>
|> >Craig
|> 
|> 
|> Here is a small patch that helps on passing parameters like dx, ex, etc
|> in the .xpvm_hosts file. Sorry the patch doesn't work for lines starting
|> with *. 
|> 
|> Note that this patch should be applied against the original (1.0) version
|> of xpvm. But shouldn't be hard to find the correct place in the 1.01 version
|> either. (I just didn't have time to download the new version yet.)
|> 
|> Laci Ladanyi
|> ladanyi@cs.cornell.edu
|> 
|> ......

There is no need for this patch in xpvm 1.01 since this release can use the same information
in the .xpvm_hosts as pvm does with the hostfile. You can just create one of those files
and link the other file name to it.

I hope you'll appreciate such a good news.

Regards

Willy
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