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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>I would expect that smpd and mpiexec would not be
interested in what is happening beyond MPI_Finalize. Can you tell me why was
this decision made - to propagate the application exit code? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>Thanks for the info so far.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jayesh@mcs.anl.gov href="mailto:jayesh@mcs.anl.gov">Jayesh
Krishna</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=calin@dolphinics.com
href="mailto:calin@dolphinics.com">'Calin Iaru'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov
href="mailto:mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov">mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [mpich-discuss] mpiexec
returns 0</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=041302814-02092008></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial><SPAN class=041302814-02092008>Hmmm... not really. mpiexec provided
with MPICH2 on windows returns the last non-zero exit code (has nothing to do
wether MPI_Finalize() was called or not) returned from an MPI process
associated with the job.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=041302814-02092008></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial><SPAN class=041302814-02092008>mpiexec also returns an error code
if there is any error within mpiexec.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=041302814-02092008>So if there is an error (in mpiexec OR in
any MPI process) in the MPI job you should be able to determine
that by a non-zero return code from mpiexec.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=041302814-02092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=041302814-02092008>-Jayesh</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> owner-mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov
[mailto:owner-mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Calin
Iaru<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:23 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
mpich-discuss@mcs.anl.gov<BR><B>Subject:</B> [mpich-discuss] mpiexec returns
0<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>I would like to have a confirmation that mpiexec
would return 0 if all processes called MPI_Finalize(). Based on return value,
some test scripts can be stopped instead of having the output
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