[mpich2-commits] r4041 - mpich2/trunk

[balaji at mcs.anl.gov]

Author: balaji
Date: 2009-03-12 16:54:02 -0500 (Thu, 12 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 4041

Modified:
   mpich2/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES
Log:
Added a note on enable-strict=posix

Modified: mpich2/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES
===================================================================
--- mpich2/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES	2009-03-12 21:38:15 UTC (rev 4040)
+++ mpich2/trunk/RELEASE_NOTES	2009-03-12 21:54:02 UTC (rev 4041)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
                               Known Deficiencies
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-- The new SMP-aware collectives added in 1.1.0a2 do not perform as well in some
+- The new SMP-aware collectives added in 1.1a2 do not perform as well in some
   cases as the non-SMP-aware collectives on machines with multiple-processors.
   This can be true particularly for MPI_Bcast with message sizes larger than
   12KiB and MPI_Reduce with message sizes larger than 2KiB.  If you find this is
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
 - The Hydra process manager does not work on Solaris and does not
   support dynamic processes at this time.
 
+- The --enable-strict configure option is broken when using sigaction
+  and friends; this causes some of the process managers (e.g., hydra,
+  remshell) to not work correctly. --enable-strict=posix is the
+  recommended configure option.
+
 - Only the ch3:sock and ch3:nemesis channels support thread safety.
  
 - The sock, sctp, nemesis, and ssm channels are the only channels that