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

[Pavan Balaji]

On 12/15/2010 10:42 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. At least till we get to MPI-3 :-).

  -- Pavan

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