[mpich-discuss] Forcing creation of working directory on Hydra

[Pavan Balaji]

Is there a reason you don't want to run "mpiexec mkdir foobar" before 
running your actual application?

  -- Pavan

On 04/17/2012 06:21 PM, Yauheni Zelenko wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think will be good idea to have and command line option to enforce creation of working directory in Hydra/proxies.
>
> One of user of our software want to use subdirectory /tmp as working directory. We create one before starting mpiexec, but it works only for local host.
>
> If such request will be considered unreasonable will be good idea to add more meaningful error message. Current one is:
>
> [mpiexec at spiceneh8c-1] control_cb (./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_cb.c:215): assert (!closed) failed
> [mpiexec at spiceneh8c-1] HYDT_dmxu_poll_wait_for_event (./tools/demux/demux_poll.c:77): callback returned error status
> [mpiexec at spiceneh8c-1] HYD_pmci_wait_for_completion (./pm/pmiserv/pmiserv_pmci.c:179): error waiting for event
> [mpiexec at spiceneh8c-1] main (./ui/mpich/mpiexec.c:397): process manager error waiting for completion
>
> Eugene.
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Pavan Balaji
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