I¹m afraid that the current comm_spawn system really can¹t run unless started via mpirun. I¹m going to take a shot at fixing it in the near future and can let you know when that is accomplished, but it might take a little while before I get the time.
Ralph On 7/11/06 4:26 PM, "s anwar" <san...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jeff: > > I've tried my application with MPICH2 and OpenMPI only. The readline stuff > works in OpenMPI as long as I don't start my application with mpirun. It does > not work in MPICH2 irrespective of whether I start my application with mpirun > or not. > > My application starts on a workstation and spawns slave processes on cluster > nodes. The application provides an interactive command shell and provides some > GUI functionality using X. > > Do you know how bad is the MPI_Comm_spawn issue if I don't start my > application via an mpirun? > > Thanks. > Saadat. > > On 7/11/06, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: >> Sorry for not replying earlier. >> >> It is likely that Open MPI won't work properly in this situation -- Open MPI >> provides basic I/O forwarding. I don't know if curses-based or >> readline-based applications will work through our forwarding. >> >> Do you know if this application works with other MPI implementations? >> >>> >>> From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org [mailto: users-boun...@open-mpi.org >>> <mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org> ] On Behalf Of s anwar >>> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 12:46 PM >>> To: Open MPI Users >>> Subject: [OMPI users] readline and mpirun >>> >>> >> When I run my MPI enabled application via mpirun, my application >> command-prompt looses its readline editing capability. I was wondering if >> there is workaround. >> >> Thanks. >> Saadat. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> us...@open-mpi.org <mailto:us...@open-mpi.org> >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users