Re: alt. proposal, version #2

Richard Frost (frost@sdsc.edu)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:08:33 -0700 (PDT)

Jean-Pierre,

Thanks for your careful reading.

Offset should be in etypes.

The comm argument should be (have been) dropped from the seek and control
interface.

- Richard

P.S., I'll send an update to Bill N.

On 20 Jun 1996, Jean-Pierre Prost/Watson/IBM Research wrote:
>
> A few comments with regard to the revisited alternate proposal.
>
> 1. In MPI_FREAD, MPI_FWRITE, MPI_IFREAD, and MPI_IFWRITE, offset is
> specified as being in filetypes, is this correct or should it be in etypes
> instead (like in the original I/O chapter)
>
> 2. I am not completely convinced of the added functionality provided by the
> functions MPI_FSEEKREAD, MPI_FSEEKWRITE, ... Should they have a comm argument ?
> Probably not.
>
> 3. I do not think MPI_Control should have a comm argument.
>
> Jean-Pierre Prost
>