Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: bmanchek@ens-lyon.fr (Bob Manchek)
Subject: Re: Triangle Inequality?
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Date: 31 Aug 1994 07:08:04 GMT
Message-ID: <341a8k$496@cri.ens-lyon.fr>

In article 2m1@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca, crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan) writes:
> PVM guarantees in-order delivery of messages between pairs of tasks,
> but does it guarantee the triangle inequality?  I.e. if we have three
> tasks A, B, and C.  A first sends a message directly to C, and then A
> sends a message to B which in turn forwards it to C.  Is it guaranteed
> that the direct message will arrive before the indirect message?

Nope, the messages could arrive at C in either order.
b

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