Re: new proposal for spawning processes

Eric Salo (salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com)
Wed, 8 May 1996 09:48:35 -0700

> 2) The name MPI_CHILD_DETACH could be misunderstood because
> it is normally used for functions that change the state from
> "attached" to "not attached".
>
> After MPI_SPAWN the state is "not attached".
> MPI_CHILD_ATTACH changes the state from "not attached" to "attached".

I would say that after MPI_Spawn(), the state is "in limbo" for MPI processes.

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