Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jbishop@ch.hp.com (John Bishop)
Reply-To: John Bishop <jbishop@ch.hp.com>
Subject: Use of /tmp/pvm* files
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 19:40:58 GMT
Message-ID: <JBISHOP.95Jun29154140@ithaca.ch.hp.com>

Why did the designers of PVM choose the /tmp/pvmd.xxx file
as the method to communicate the master pvmd socket number?

Why not pass the number as an argument in the invocation
command string when rsh-ing the new pvmd?

        -John Bishop

