[mpich-discuss] Runtime config file

[Pavan Balaji]

On 02/17/2011 06:10 PM, Pavan Balaji 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.

FYI, as of r8021 (trunk) and r8022 (1.3.x branch), the config file 
options do not conflict with the command-line options. If a value is not 
specified on the command line, the value given in the config file is 
used by default.

  -- Pavan

-- 
Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji