[mpich2-dev] Parent terminates when the spawned child terminates

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 15 December 2010 13:34, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> The standard leaves it pretty open, saying that an error in one application
> *may* affect the other. What exactly is done depends on the MPI
> implementation.
>

Of course, but I understand that a portable program should assume that
errors in one app *do* affect the other... and then be very careful
with usages of exit(), abort() and friends.

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