Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: ghogenso@u.washington.edu (Gordon Hogenson)
Subject: Re: Unexpected problems with pvm_spawn and pvm_joingroup
Organization: University of Washington
Date: 21 Jul 1995 18:21:59 GMT
Message-ID: <3uor87$ec@nntp5.u.washington.edu>

ghogenso@u.washington.edu (Gordon Hogenson) writes:

>Furthermore, the program calls pvm_joingroup().  The parent process
>gets a return value of 0, as expected.  But for some unknown reason,
>the spawned process on the SGI gets a return value of 11, whereas I
>would have expected it to be 1.  The documentation says that it
>counts upward and that the return value is the first unused id.  Why
>'11' then?  Is the return value supposed to be an arbitrary number
>or is this a bug?

I do not know what the problem was, but it was solved by
halting PVM and restarting it.

Gordon.
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