Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: moyer@mathcs.emory.edu (Steve Moyer)
Subject: Re: Sharing file pointers in PVM
Keywords: file pointer. PVM
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
Date: 16 Apr 1995 11:55:49 -0400
Message-ID: <3mrem5$cq6@chilidog.mathcs.emory.edu>

In article <3mq7o0$acu@news.tamu.edu>,
Wookho Son <wooks@slx5.NoSubdomain.NoDomain> wrote:

>The problem is I'm trying to make children processes share a set of file
>pointers with the parent process

If you want to access shared files in a coordinated fashion from a PVM
program, then what you need is a parallel file system for the PVM environment.
Fortunately, such a thing exists and is freely available; it is called PIOUS.

To view the PIOUS home page, point your favorite WWW browser at the following
URL:  http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/pious.html

>I'm also looking for a way of passing pointer data types to other processes
>in PVM.

Now you're talking about distributed shared memory (DSM).  Perhaps someone
else can point you to a freely available DSM package for PVM.

Regards,

Steve

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