[MPICH] Mixing MPI

[David Minor]

What I did is create a server that communicates with it's clients using
sockets. It is also the MPI rank 0 process. It has a separate thread
that handles the sockets from the threads that handle the MPI calls.
This is over simplistic but MPI wasn't really designed for this kind of
work (unfortunately). 
David

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Subject: [MPICH] Mixing MPI

I am writing a server program using MPI and other packages which use
sockets and pipes and the like. I have had a ponder and a google but
cannot see how to introduce MPI to the server using something like the
unix select() to avoid polling. Can I get hold of file descriptors? Or
am I simply looking at what must be a fairly common task in the wrong
way? Thanks for any suggestions.