What OMPI version are you talking about?
We already trap SIGPIPE, but ignore it at the request of others (not sure what
version that was started). I believe a flag may exist to alter that behavior -
could easily be added if not.
On Nov 24, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Jesse Ziser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed that OpenMPI does not seem to detect when something downstream
> of it fails. Specifically, I think it does not handle SIGPIPE or pass it
> down to its young, but it still prints an error message every time it occurs.
>
> For example, running a command like this:
>
> mpirun -np 1 ./mpi-cat </dev/zero | dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null
>
> (where mpi-cat is just a simple program that initializes MPI and then copies
> its input to its output) hangs after the dd quits, and produces an eternity
> of repetitions of this error message:
>
> [[35845,0],0] reports a SIGPIPE error on fd 13
>
> I am unsure whether this is the intended behavior, but it certainly seems
> unfortunate from my persepective. Is there any way to make it exit nicely,
> preferably with a single error, whenever what it's trying to write to doesn't
> exist anymore? I think I could even submit a patch to make it quit on
> SIGPIPE, if it is agreed that that makes sense.
>
> Here's the source for my mpi-cat example:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> #include <mpi.h>
>
> int main (int iArgC, char *apArgV [])
> {
> int iRank;
>
> MPI_Init (&iArgC, &apArgV);
>
> MPI_Comm_rank (MPI_COMM_WORLD, &iRank);
>
> if (iRank == 0)
> {
> while(1)
> if(putchar(getchar()) < 0)
> break;
> }
>
> MPI_Finalize ();
>
> return (0);
> }
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jesse Ziser
> Applied Research Laboratories:
> The University of Texas at Austin
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