[mpich2-dev] Hydra 1.4 configfile usage (or bug?)

[Pavan Balaji]

Oops. Fixed in r8869. Thanks for reporting it.

  -- Pavan

On 08/03/2011 06:45 PM, Cody R. Brown wrote:
> With MPICH2 1.3.1, I would use the -configfile option like below with
> a simple helloWorld example:
>    mpiexec -configfile appfile hello
>
> The contents of the appfile could be this to spawn 12 processes of the
> hello executable:
>    [cody at cyclops helloworld]$ more appfile
>     -n 10 hello
>     -n 2 hello
>
>
> Using Hydra 1.4, the configfile option no longer seems to be
> functioning correctly. It attempts to execute the config file (appfile
> in this case), and you get permission denied errors. I notice the
> changes in config_fn function in "ui/mpich/utils.c". Is this a bug, or
> was the syntax of the configfile contents change to a new format?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Cody R. Brown, M.Sc. Student
>    UBC Department of Computer Science
>    201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
>    Office: ICCS x409      http://www.codybrown.ca/

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