[openib-general] Fork issues with simple MPI program

[Tziporet Koren]

Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Arlin Davis wrote:
>   
>> Any insight would be greatly appreciated. It was our assumption that the parent process can continue
>> to use IB resources after the fixes went into 2.6.16 and OFED 1.1. Is this true? 
>>     
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> As was discussed over this list in few occasions: in contrast to popular 
> thought the fork support was deployed in libibverbs1.1 where OFED 1.1 
> contains libibverbs1.0
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> Or.
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The only fork support in OFED 1.1 is system() or fork & exec.
Note that the support in OFED 1.2 (actually changes in libibverbs 1.1) 
needs some change in the application.

Tziporet