[mpich-discuss] Runtime config file

[Pavan Balaji]

On 02/17/2011 06:09 PM, Pavan Balaji wrote:
>
> On 02/17/2011 06:06 PM, Saurabh T wrote:
>> Thanks. Please note that anything here should be overridable.
>> Currently if you supply two -fs or a -f and -hosts, mpiexec gives an
>> error, so I gotta watch out for that in the script I wrote. I dont
>> personally like this behaviour because it assumes the user doesnt
>> know what he's doing. It should use priority: system<   user<   command
>> line and ideally even on command line the last one among competing
>> options should "win".
>
> That depends on what you prefer -- higher configurability or higher
> error checking. We chose to go with higher error checking.

On the other hand, if you are referring to having an option in a 
configuration file, and the same option on the command line, then I 
agree. But that's not implemented yet.

  -- Pavan

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Pavan Balaji
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