[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...

[Greg Lindahl]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:37:55AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:

> and ISTR that it
> isn't even required by the MPI spec since that leaves behavior of an MPI
> app undefined after a fork() call and hence any application written to
> depend on undefined behavior is broken by design,

Doug,

There are many things which MPI programs do that MPI vendors like to
support even though they're undefined in the standard. This is one of
the minor ones. The situation is similar to F77 extensions, there are
a bunch of them you must support to have a commercially viable
compiler.

-- greg