Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: rausch@hermes.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Alexander Rausch)
Subject: pvm_getfds and PVM_EXPORT
Organization: IPVR, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 17:20:56 GMT
Message-ID: <D2Ayuw.B1n@news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

Hi,

currently I am upgrading our PVM-based robot control system to use PVM 3.3.6.
Unfortunately there is no possibility to use PVM_EXPORT and pvm_getfds on SUNMP
architectures any more. I have circumvented the lack of PVM_EXPORT by exchanging
further messages. But two questions remain:

1. Why is it not possible to spawn a process with command line options on SUNMP
machines? The follow code does not work:

static char *rob_environment[7]; /* last element containing (char*)0 */
...
some_function(){
...
  if(pvm_spawn("message", rob_environment, PvmTaskHost, "sunmphost", 1, &message)< 1){
...

2. How can I circumvent the missing pvm_getfds() function on SUNMP.

Any hints welcome

Alexander

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