Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Richard Barrett <rbarrett@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: HELP: How to test if message has been sent ?????
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:21:55 -0600
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Markus Fischer wrote:
> 
> hi,
> after you have done pvm_send you can
> do what ever you want !
> 
> Markus


Not true for the Cray T3D. It's a documented feature that you 
can "step on" the data you're trying to send. And there is no
polling function to know when the send is complete.

Cray can get away with this since PVM is not a true standard. But the
T3D is the only places I've seen this. And I doubt Cray has any
intention
of fixing this.
 
Richard

