Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: sth@em.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Stefan Hoereth)
Subject: Re: Once more: Signals & PVM
Organization: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
Date: 14 Feb 1995 13:34:09 GMT
Message-ID: <3hqbgh$al2@zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>

In article al2@zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de, sth@em.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Stefan Hoereth) writes:

> In pvm 3.3.6 and 3.3.7 there is no function call
> 'pvm_signal()' (neither in 'pvm3.h' nor in the sources)

Of course not, since the name of the function call is 'pvm_sendsig()'.

I have to excuse for my 'garbage mail' but I was misled
by another article.

However, people seem to be undecided whether to use signals with pvm or not.

To my understanding it should be save to:
  - use a dedicated user signal (e.g. SIGUSR1 on SUN)
  - mask this signal before every call to a pvm routine.
(Is the latter really necessary?)

Could someone shed light on this ?

Stefan.



