Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jmartin@cs.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Martin)
Subject: Re: Get a new tid for fork()'ed process?
Organization: The University of Iowa
Date: 5 Mar 1996 08:30:06 GMT
Message-ID: <4hgu2e$10uu@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>

Richard Kilgore <rkilgore@lore.ece.utexas.edu> wrote:

> I've got an application in which a process running as a task
> under pvm calls fork().  My problem is that the child process
> ends up with the same Pvm task ID as the parent, but I want
> it to be independent.  Is there some way to kick the Pvm
> libraries in the back of the head and say, "Hey, I'm a
> NEW Process!!"?

Use pvm_spawn instead? (with flag = PvmTaskHost, where = "localhost")

