Re: caching on MPI handles

Eric Salo (salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 18 Oct 1996 15:24:53 -0700

> Well, I actually need an MPI_Type_dup function :-) to save a copy of
> the "etype" and "filetype" for the file. The way I do it now is by
> calling MPI_Type_contiguous with a count of 1.

I don't understand. Once the datatype is freed by the application, why do you
need to keep it around, especially if you have a delete_fn defined for it?

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