Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: pdinda+@cs.cmu.edu (Peter A Dinda)
Subject: Re: Prepending data to a message buffer?
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 11:48:21 GMT
Message-ID: <CsBA4L.KMu.3@cs.cmu.edu>

In article <Cs9KCu.AJB@lehman.com>, Doug Fields <dfields@lehman.com> wrote:
>In other words, I want to start with a buffer packed full of stuff,
>call it A. I want to send a message B which consists of some sort of
>tag and the contents of A. When message B is received, it should be
>able to do an unpack() to get the tag out, then the rest of the
>unpacks will access the data from A.
Why not just tag the B message as "B", the A message as "A" - then
do the receives in the order you want.  



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Peter A. Dinda (pdinda@cs.cmu.edu)
Graduate Student, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

