Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: edwin@dutind3.twi.tudelft.nl (Edwin Vollebregt)
Subject: Setting the working-directory ?
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:14:37 GMT
Message-ID: <DxxB4D.8n8@student.twi.tudelft.nl>

Hi,

Do you know a way to set the working-directory of spawned processes at
run-time (by themselves) or at spawn-time (by the master process) ?

We have parallelized a large simulation program with PVM, to be used
by non-expert users. The program is applied to different problems,
which all reside in a separate directory. The worker processes must
have this directory as their working-directory. At the moment this is
achieved by providing a hostfile for each of the directories. My problem
is that users must make a new hostfile when they create a new problem and
directory.

Regards,
   Edwin
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