[MPICH] Behavour if MPI_File_Open fails on some nodes

[James S Perrin]

Hi Rob,

	Case 2 would be fine, however MPI_File_Open (rank 0) is not returning 
at all in the situation I've described.

	BTW since I don't know if the file is shared or duplicated I'm  only 
using MPI_File_Open, MPI_File_view, MPI_File_read and MPI_File_close. ie 
nothing that should depended on the shared file pointer.

Regards
James

Robert Latham wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:40:39AM +0100, James S Perrin wrote:
>> If the file does not exist for one of the processes I'd expect either:
>>
>> 1. The specific process to return an ERROR that that file can't be opened
>> 2. All processes to return an ERROR
>>
>> I assumed case 1) and I do an Allgather so that all the processes know 
>> if all the other processes were successful and to proceed accordingly. 
>> This seems to be behaviour I have with other MPI implementations and is 
>> only causing problems if the directory path to the file doesn't exist i.e.
> 
> In addition to Rajeev's comments, we treat errors as in case 2: an
> error from any process should result in MPI_File_open returning the
> apropriate error as part of the return code.   
> 
> ==rob
> 


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