[MPICH] Is there a way to get notification from mpiexec when a process dies?

[David Minor]

That would very much help. I need that the client that spawns mpiexec
will always be alive and know whats going on. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rusty Lusk [mailto:lusk at mcs.anl.gov] 
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:51 AM
To: David Minor
Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [MPICH] Is there a way to get notification from mpiexec
when a process dies?

We are currently working out a specification for what mpiexec return
codes mean and what files mpiexec might leave behind when it dies to
explain what happened.  Would that be of use?

From: "David Minor" <david-m at orbotech.com>
Subject: [MPICH] Is there a way to get notification from mpiexec when a
process dies?
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:00:18 +0200

> I'd like to know if there is a way to get notified if a process dies,
is
> killed, exits, seg-faults, or disappears in any way, from the
> application that exec'd mpiexec.  Note, this application is NOT an mpi
> process, it merely called mpiexec to start the mpi processes.  I can
> poll use mpdlistjobs, but I don't like the idea of doing this
> periodically.  Is there some message sent by one of the python daemons
> that I can listen to that will tell me when a rank dies?
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Minor
> 
> Orbotech
>