Change summary from the previous version

This section lists the changes to mpich since the previous version. These changes are taken from the CVS log entries that accompany each change and may not be complete or entirely accurate.

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'#elif defined(FOO)' is better than '#elif FOO' if FOO might be undefined

(romio) clean up the output a bit more

(various configure.in files) for autoconf 2.13 and on, AC_SEARCH_LIBS adds any necessary libraries to the LIBS variable, so I modified our configure scripts to no longer rely on internal autoconf variables (ac_vc_search_*) and instead use LIBS.

a start at adding pvfs2-specific hints

Add DESTDIR to installation paths

Add NETBSD uniformly to timer directory

add PVFS2 to the list of filesystems that don't support shared file pointers

Add a test for no f90 compiler

Add code to save/set status on split collectives

Add locations for Java

Add mpi include path when testing for MPI_Offset size and only perform that test for Fortran

Add mpichversion to MPICH and ensure that change directory commands in Makefile are successful before executing the next step

Add new methods for data type SLOG_strlist_t

Add support for io tests and upgrade runbase

added 'struct gridftp_params' for MPICH-G2's use of Globus GridFTP

Added .deps to .cvsignore

Added AC_OBJEXT and AC_EXEEXT changes to Makefiles to support cygwin.

Added AC_OBJEXT and AC_EXEEXT to configure.in and related changes to aclocal_mpi.m4, this is done to support cygwin.

added API for IBM

Added BUILDING_MPI symbol to suppress link tests in the midst of building

Added CPPFLAGS to PAC_TEST_PROGRAM

Added EXEEXT to move targets for cygwin

Added FREEBSD_PPC machine time (like FREEBSD except for data representation

Added FREEBSD_PPC to known arches for p4

Added FREEBSD_PPC to known systems

Added Fortran binding for MPE_Log_send() and MPE_Log_receive()

Added LINUX_PPC to known arches

Added MPE_LOGFILE_PREFIX to allow specification of MPE output filename prefix.

added MPI_Pcontrol for illustration

Added RANLIB

Added Rabenseifner's algorithm for long-message Reduce and Allreduce. Also added a lgp recursive halving algorithm for Reduce_scatter in the case of commutative ops

Added TAGS targets

added __LINE__ to MPIR_Err_create_code

Added a check for time.h and that sys/time.h and time.h may be used together

Added a comment about determining the largest fd

Added a default for F77 if no architecture is recognized

Added a dummy definition of GREQUEST to make the romioconf.h.in files the same for configure and configure2

Added a few comments about fields in File structure

Added a fix for zap_p4_processes

Added a freebsd_ppc type (likely MacOSX)

Added a macro defn so that other parts of MPICH can tell if MPIO_Request has been defiend

Added a more forgiving check for a valid arch in the MACHINES file

Added a new test with an increment of two for group creation

Added a note about problems with the AC_EXEEXT macro in autoconf 2.13

Added a short comment about MPI_CC

Added a test for READ_ONLY file

Added a test for a failure in ROMIO configure

Added a test that struct statfs can be compiled, because of problems with the Intel C compiler and glibc

Added a way to skip the does-it-run-cleanly step, needed for coverage tests (which rarely run cleanly)

added ad_iopen.c

Added additional positional args for gcc

Added additional search dirs

added an MPI_Type_free for an MPI_Allgather subroutine

Added an additional step to drain incoming messages and a comment about ordering head-to-head rendezvous messages

Added an empty coverage target to MPE

Added an option for an environment variable to set the stopfile

Added another Linux synonym

Added another test for cancel of Issend based on an MPICH bug report (currently MPICH1 fails this test with a SEGV in ch_p4 device)

Added autom4te.cache to .cvsignore

added barrier to MPI_File_close to avoid deletion of shared file pointer file while others were still accessing it.

added bug fix sent in by Wei-keng on atomicity in collective writes (Req #516)

added casts to int from functions that return size_t and added MPIU_dbg_init() to initthread

Added check for getopt.h

Added code to determine the argc/argv support needed for the ROMIO Fortran tests

added code to propagate environment variables for Nick. Nothing happens unless P4_SETS_ALL_ENVVARS is set

Added code to provide accurate MPI error classes for failure to open file (e.g., path too long, missing directory, no such file)

Added comment about incompatible demon options in mpd1 and mpd2

Added comments about setting the working directory

Added copyright statements to ROMIO test programs

Added coverage options and standard enable/disable for f77

Added coverage output files to cvsignore

Added coverage targets

Added definitions to allow ROMIO programs that use MPIO_Wait to work with ROMIO under MPICH2, where generalized requests allow MPI_Wait et al to work

added documentation comments, reported memory errors, put the pmi database on the root process

added error checking blocks

added error code for local success but remote file_open failure

added error message catalog dll to ch_nt device

Added exec_prefix and sbindir to mpirun variables so that we can invoke tools like cleanipcs in sbindir

Added explanation when error seen

Added export of OPTFLAGS and OPTFLAGSF so that all parts of MPICH get -opt=flags

Added failure return if manager cannot be found

Added fixes for autoconf later than 2.13; also make a failure to build slogsdk non-fatal

Added function prototype and stdlib.h header to eliminate compiler warning on exit()

added globus_core to globus-makefile-header command as a workaroundto newly introduced bug in either globus-makefile-header (notfinding the implicit dependency for it) or gpt-build (not seeingthe stuff from globus-makefile-header)

Added hooks for ROMIO to propagate shared library information

Added hooks for generating shared libraries for ROMIO adio/common directory

Added if test to ROMIO configure to bypass check for Fortran if --disable-f77 is selected

Added ifc to f90 compilers

Added large file support for 32-bit OS: Added test to configure.in to check if O_LARGEFILE is available (Ref: http://ftp.sas.com/standards/large.file/xopen/x_open.05Mar96.html) and required macros to mpeconf.h.in.

Added markers for error-checking code to aid in coverage analysis

Added master_top_srcdir and man page documentation targets

Added missing test for MPI_STATUS_IGNORE

Added more support for shared libraries

Added most of the multiple completion waits and tests in MPIO_Waitany etc. form

Added mpicxx to installed files, and handle case-insensitive file systems (for Mac OS X)

Added mpicxx to known compiler names

added new algorithms for alltoall, allgather, and allgatherv

Added optional definition of S_ISLNK if strict ANSI selected for C

Added patch sent in by multiple people for uninitialized data bug

Added pointer in ADIO_File structure for file system specific use.

Added quotes to protect against an empty variable

Added some tests for struct flock problems

Added special support for TFLOPS architecture and devices that do not have MPID_Status_set_bytes

Added stdlib.h

Added stdlib.h header to eliminate compiler warning on exit()

Added support for gcc dependency creation

Added support for including patch information in mpichversion

Added support for mpichversion

Added support for setting group id

Added support to make SLOG1 API's library and related tools depending on the successful return of the SLOG1 API's configure. This is added to support Cray. Also, modify some global subroutines that have CLOG_ prefix to C2S1_ instead( abbi's code ).

Added temporary ac_subst items to enable the rest of the ROMIO tests

Added test for CPP

Added test for errno == 0 because of Solaris bug (return -1 but errno not set)

Added test for pvfs header and int64_t definition fix

added text on needing lockd daemon to NFS file lock error message

Added the package slog2sdk to the configure.in and Makefile.in. Also added support for drop & configure support for slog_api, viewers and slog2sdk.

adding ch_p4mpd device files

adding files for lib in p4mpd

adding files in include dir for p4mpd

adding mpd source configure- and make-related files

adding mpd source files

adding top-level p4mpd files

adjusted error handling block

Allow -n as a synonym for -np in mpirun

Allow a path list for mpd and make sure that it is propagated from the top-level configure

Allow compile commands with options in command tests

Allow empty arguments in mpeinstall

Allow make to be set from the environment

Assert that we support funneled thread safety

autoconf already substitutes @prefix@, so don't manually AC_SUBST(PREFIX)

Be sure to copy all data out of a short received packet before returning it to the available pool (where another process may use it)

Better handle misssing comparison file

cache local ip string

Capability now there to use dataloop code for flattening, but it is currently disabled (at the top of flatten.c).

ch_nt: added ad_set_view.c

ch_nt: added gencheck.c to the project files

ch_nt: added host name to error output

ch_nt: added some retry code to avoid thread creation failures

ch_nt: added synchronization to shmem queue initialization

ch_nt: added the ability to share memory accross local windows workstation boundaries

ch_nt: fixed mpptest in the examples \\nt directory

ch_nt: updated error messages

Change := to = in LIBS assignment

Change mpptest output to use gnuplot by default

Change p4_dprintf to p4_dprintfl in p4_sock_cr.c so that messages about environment are not printed by default

Changed AUX_DIR to point to local version

changed MPIR_ALLREDUCE_TAG to MPIR_REDUCE_SCATTER_TAG in a few places in reduce_scatter

changed MPI_File_open to fail on all processes if any process returns error

changed NULL to MPI_DATATYPE_NULL in ad_init.c

Changed error message for intracomm expected

changed faulty var name hostname -> host_name in DEBUG

Changed max msg queues from 8 to 64 in p4_MD.h

changed maximum number of processes from 32 to 256

changed minimum spanning tree to binary tree in algorithm description for collectives

changes to utilize GridFTP

Check for PRINT_ERR_MSG defined

Check for STATUS_IGNORE

Check for and use errno.h

Check for and use stdlib.h

Check for broken autoconf (without support for AM macros)

Check for f90 include files before trying to install them

Check for mpichversion.exe for cygwin installations

Check for needs int64_t definition

Check for read-only access to the file before attempting to write

Check the status of most MPI_File operations.. added some commented-out hints we should use whenever we teach coll_test how to handle more command-line arguments than just -fname

Clean up ROMIO makefile

Clean up ROMIOs aclocal.m4

Cleanup use of getopt and use header file when available

close a small memory leak

closes romioreq #515: with pete wycoff's suggested fix: don't override user-specified include path.

configure test for fstypename means we don't have to test for specific bsd versions anymore

correct the markup for the deferred open hints

corrected bug in mpirun.globus2 script: -np X with X>255 should work on any platform -- bug uncovered by then98@sohu.com, sent to mpi@globus.org on Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:19:57 +0800 (CST)

Corrected message about number of allowed processes in test

Create the links for the sharedlib names for use in-place

DESTDIR for mpiinstall.in

declared integer toterrs in isendf.f

deferred open: now open the file if independent io attempted

deleted trailing spaces in fortran/configure.in

Deleted useless symbols: double precision MPE_WTIME, MPE_PTIME

derrive the 'deferred_open' hint if the "no independent io" and "use collecitve buffering" hints are turned on.

Detect a wtick of 0

Do not define MPI_Info_xxx as PMPI_Info_xxx when building the MPI_Info routines in mpi2-other/info

do not do link tests if building withing an MPI implementation

Do not fail if we cannot remove a link to mpif.h that we believe we have created

do not override includedir

document no_indep_rw a bit better

documentation to use SLOG-API to add arrow

don't assume MPI_INFO_NULL is zero. explicitly compare against MPI_INFO_NULL

don't mung MPI_LIB if you can help it. if ROMIO needs extra (non-mpi) libraries to link, use ROMIO_LIBLIST

don't set C_OPT_FLAGS if user provides CFLAGS (closes: mpich2-req 238)

Eliminating common uninitialized symbols in ROMIO common/ad_init.c.

Ensure that CFLAGS is exported as well as CC in case the user has placed flags that change the compilers behavior in significant ways into CFLAGS instead of CC

Ensure that MPI->PMPI mapping is used for internal routines

Ensure that PAC macros are all expanded or not present in generated configure (like AC macro names, they should not even be in comments to simplify error checks for unexpanded macros)

Ensure that all tests use FFLAGS or F90FLAGS

Ensure that definitions of HAVE_MPI_INFO have the same value

Ensure that long long is 8 bytes before using it for int64_t

Ensure that sockets are only closed if they have been opened (some logic paths might not set end_1 and/or end_2)

Ensure that status is set correctly for count == 0

Ensure that temporary test files are removed

Ensure that the ENABLE_SHLIBS variable is none if not building shared libraries in ROMIO

Ensure that the Fortran interface libraries have the ranlib step applied

Filter additional processes from aborttest checks

fine-tuning hint precedence for deferred open

first cut at using generalized requests, if avaliable

Fix Makefile.in so it won't build mpereconfig from mpereconfig.in

Fix ROMIOs scheme for detecting Fortran naming convention to use - in strings (-a isnt enough under Mac OSX)

Fix [] bug in C++ autoconf macros (missing changequote statements)

Fix array length

Fix begin->end in error handling comment

Fix for --enable-boot for ch_p4mpd testing

Fix for MPICH variable in mpeinstall

Fix for ROMIO under MPICH1

Fix for exclude and machine files with ncpus specifiers

Fix for gcc 3.2 weak symbols

Fix for mpich-1 and romio

fix for new mpiinstall

Fix for read of uninitialized storage and error in the macro to check if a send has been cancelled

Fix for shared libraris in ROMIO

Fix for some broken automakes

Fix for the second use of aborttest

Fix ifdef for verbose output

Fix incorrect use of config.log

Fix invokation of romio configure

Fix long-standing problem with IO tests in test suite

Fix missing ierr on Allreduce call

Fix missing semicolon

Fix problems with dependency generation code

Fix test for send datatype to apply only at the root process

fix the unparameterized MPIR_Err_create_code calls

Fix to allow totalview to work when -nolocal is selected

Fix to ensure that include path is included in tests

Fix typo in one of the wtime declarations

fixed -hosts option bug

fixed MPI_FILE_NULL warning and configuration bugs in ROMIO Fortran tests

fixed ROMIO Fortran interface for gcc 3.2

Fixed a bug in init_g.c caused by globus_duroc_intra_subjob_sendthat put a limit on the number of procs that could be startedANDcommented out "sanity checking" code that prevented MPICH-G2 fromlinking against the Globus Toolkit 2.4.3 libraries that were distributedin GT v3.2.

fixed a logic problem comparing fd->info to MPI_INFO_NULL

fixed bug in MPID_Comm_init so that it will now work with new MPI-2 functions MPI_Comm_connect,accept on machines with vMPI.

fixed bug in MPI_Reduce_scatter

fixed bug in alltoall

fixed bug in bnr.c: reset global fence flag

fixed bug in file_set_errhandler

Fixed bug in noncontig memory/contig file listio code (not calling status set bytes).Added new combining write functionality into non-listio strided write, removing writev calls.

fixed bug in reduce scatter

Fixed bug in semop call when interrupts received

fixed bug in type_create_darray

fixed bug in weak symbols test in ROMIO's configure.in

fixed bug related to MPI_DISPLACEMENT_CURRENT

fixed bug with 0-size messages in collectives

Fixed bugs in the new ROMIO configure

Fixed build for configure due to new files in confdb

Fixed documentation that refered to MPI_STATUS_NULL or MPI_STATUSES_NULL (should be IGNORE, not NULL)

Fixed emacs header and added comments about f77 failures

Fixed error in pmpi version of object comparisons that caused the Solaris C++ compiler to give fatal errors

fixed list freeing code

Fixed longstanding typo in a define.

fixed some error printint statements

fixed string for executable staging ... added '#' which is RSL concat operator

Fixed the GCC ever changing treatment of va_arg by changing the test from AC_TRY_COMPILE to AC_TRY_RUN to avoid the unexpected coredump due to non int va_arg.

Fixed the GCC3XX test

Fixed the test for the master_top_srcdir

fixes a segfault in noncontig_coll2 test

Fixes for ROMIO tests from MPICH test suite

Fixes for caching and enable strict plus fix for bogus GNU version of head and tail

Fixes for mpichversion

Fixes for the multiple completion routines in ROMIO

fixup handling of profiling target

Flatten now supports subarray and darray combiners.

Further improve error reporting from perftest/makeconfigure

Further update the ROMIO aclocal.m4 for autoconf 2.57

get value directly from the hint structure instead of parsing the Info object

getting all Globus header files above all others to fix annoyingOS-based compiler bugs/warnings are various archs ... most notably AIX

hack around the fact that := isn't avaliable everywhere, and added a .o suffix rule to clean up some of the targets

Handle more bugs in aclocal

honor setting romio_ds_write to "disable"

if indepenent io attempted during deferred open, abort

If we use generalized requests, these conversion functions don't have to do anything

Ignore config.cache in ROMIO since autoconf does not correctly detect critical changes to the environment

implement scalable MPI_File_set_size for pvfs1

implement scalable sync for pvfs1

implement set_view as a function, not as fs-specific fcntl.

Improve filtering for irrelevant processes

Improve handling of IO tests

Improve test for alternate libraries to support getarg

Improve the handling of the IO tests in the mpich test suite when romio is not built

improved configure to handle missing Fortran compiler

Improved handling of shared libraries

Improved spec file

Increase secure server timeout to 2 seconds and add more debugging output

Increase wait time in secure server code to 5 seconds

Increased max keyvals from 64 to 256.

initial deferred open work. skips the open for now. will actually defer later

Initial deposit, to get autoheader to work correctly

Initialize autodx and autorel (not actually needed) to keep some compilers happy

introduce a 'worker_rank' member to ADIO_FileD.

Issue a configure-time error message if comm=bproc but bproc is not available

lam-submitted patch to use 'unsinged int' to hold the umask(2) output

lam-supplied portability fixes

Let C++ configure know about versions 1.2.5 and 1.2.6

look for large file summit headers and defines; add proper magic to CFLAGS if we find them

MPI_File_seek won't actually seek: we keep track of where we should be and seek before reading or writing. now only has to open the file in the MPI_SEEK_END case

Made sure that all tests guard variables that might be empty with both a -n test and an && concatenation, along with quotes everywhere

Made the MPIO_Request routines optional (not built for MPICH2 which should be using generalized requests instead) and added LIBTOOL definitions

make clean_execer routine have a conforming internal name

Make error test use standard output format

Make test for error message less sensitive to the exact wording

Make the C++ configure understand mpicxx as well as mpiCC

Make the include of mpiof.h optional

Make the release level current so that patches can be more easily generated

Minor fix to HPUX stuff.

Minor fix to man page for Type_indexed

minor fixes to MPIR_Err_create_code() calls

missing prototype for MPI_Status_set_elements

modified CheckRecvErr() to check the error class in status->MPI_ERROR rather than the whole error code

Modified ROMIO tests to generate standard output on no errors

Move BasicTypes to a better place

Move use of USE_STDARG after the point where it is defined by mpidefs.h

moved MPID_Type_free from the "default" case to just after thewhole switch statement so that it is now called for _all_ the casesin the switch statement ... not just the "default" case

Moved compiler selection ahead of other arch-specific tests to workaround a limitation in AC_PROG_CC and anything that requires it, including AC_CHECK_HEADERS

Moved conf file to top

must edit mpio.h to define HAVE_MPI_GREQUEST if avaliable

new error handling

new versions of pvfs have fewer members in the pvfs_filestat structure. icctreats 'too many initializer values' as an error.

no need for worker_rank after all. ranklist[0] has what we need

OS-based compiler bugs/warnings are various archs ... most notably AIX

one more deferred open file

Pass CFLAGS to mpd configure to ensure shared library options are propagated

Pass includedir to mpe configure

Pass libdir and bindir to mpe configure

passed the correct size of the buffer into MPI_Buffer_attach()

Preliminary update of MPE README for inclusion of slog2sdk

Protect results from pwd step in case it fails

prototopye for ADIOI_GEN_WriteStrided_naive

Provide a default if MPIRUN_DEVICE not set

Provide an ifdef for using Generalized requests in MPI-IO code (e.g., use MPI_Wait instead of MPIO_Wait)

Provide more detailed error messages and error classes on open failures

Put #if 0 #endifpair around doing chdir since that is handled by mpd in the ch_p4mpd device.

Re-establish a connection with the listener before sending the DIE message

Rearranged AC_PROG_CC to the beginning of configure.in so AC macros that needs CC can be invoked without complaints when running autoconf.

Remember status return on IO operation so that status field on split collective can be set correctly on the xxx_end routine

Remove .lo files as well as .o files in clean step

Remove MPI_Type_count

Remove bogus setting of default file system

Remove duplicate ioreq_c2f and ioreq_f2c

Removed all mpereconfig references. Explicitly creating examplesbuild_dir/Makefile using build_dir/contrib/test/Makefile as a template.

removed all the symbols that were commented out with #if 0-#endif block

Removed mpich2_fileutil.c from list of files to compile with the name-shifting interface

removed mpiimpl.h

Removed rmprog target for mpereconfig.*

Removed spurious \\ from line

Removed test for file locks under NFS

Renamed internal function with p4 prefix

replaced --enable-slog2source by --enable-slog2=build.

fixes for the HP bug (closes romio req #570)

romio: a few more error code fixes

romio: bandaid fix for mpiimpl.h include problem

romio: nfs error code updates

romio: ufs error code updates

romio: updated error handling for ad_ntfs - needs to be done for all the other ad_xxx's and the common files

Run cleanipcs if possible after running comm=shared p4 jobs

SL: corrected bug for allgather, allgatherv, alltoall when called with buffer=NULL and counts=0

Save output from aborttest for the case where there is a problem

Set error class to MPI_ERR_ARG for improper filetype

Set group

setbuf with a null arg does not always turn off buffering; also add tests that write to socket succeeded

slog2sdk is installed in -copymode=core

Some aggregator-aware operations need to know the rank of the 'io_worker', sointroduce a 'worker_rank' member to ADIO_FileD.

Some enhancements for shared libraries

Start adding casts to handle compiler warnings about varags and uint_16 items

statuses[?].MPI_ERROR was not being reset when waiting after a MPI_ERR_PENDING was returned from the MPI_Waitall()

Support .S as well as .s

Switch from MPI_ERR_UNSUPPORTED to ERR_ACCESS for access failures

Switch from MPI_INFO_SRC to HAVE_MPI_INFO_SRC definition name for codes that need the ROMIO implementation of MPI Info

Switch to using autoconf2 configure for ROMIO

teach romio about new pvfs2 device

Test for getwd and only define getwd in terms of getcwd if necessary (to avoid problems with different versions of getcwd)

that put a limit on the number of procs that could be startedANDcommented out "sanity checking" code that prevented MPICH-G2 fromlinking against the Globus Toolkit 2.4.3 libraries that were distributedin GT v3.2.

the chek for fstypename cannot be AC_TRY_COMPILE. autoconf1.7 uses AC_COMPILE_CHECK

the fd is inside a request structure

the fd is part of the request structure, not standing by itself

Took out line setting ind_wr_buffer_size to -1 in disabled case. Using thatvalue in a more generic sense now.

Turn off the test for the MPI library when building as part of MPICH

typedefed the ADIOI_FileD structure

umode(2) returns a mode_t, not an int. changed type of old_mask accordingly

Undefine MPI_xxx_c2f and f2c before defining them if necessary

Update .cvsignore for 2.57 cache

Update ancient nupshot configure

Update configuration of MPE for LAM

Update makeconfigure to be more robust

update man page comment

updated #define file to rename global symbols

updated ROMIO code to take into account deletion of SGI files

updated ROMIO's configure for weak symbols

Updated User's Guide to include additional information on ROMIO and NFS.

updated algo cutoff point in bcast

updated algorithms for allgather, allgatherv, and alltoall

updated bcast algorithm

updated collective algorithms

Updated configure.in in MPE for better autoheader and for mpich2

updated description of collective algorithms

Updated java search paths

updated romio for mpich-2

Updated some error handling in ROMIO

updated test to use prototype form

Updated the config.guess script

Updates to get the ROMIO_HOME srcdir

Upgrade the PAC_TEST_PROGRAM macro

Use F90FLAGS instead of FFLAGS for f90 compilation/linking

Use Fortran to link Fortran programs

Use IPC_PRIVATE instead of getpid to get a unique id for new sysv mem and semaphores

use LDFLAGS and LIBS if provided by the environment variables

Use MPI_Wait for requests when generalized requests available for ROMIO

Use XSL Transform xmlns for stylesheet

Use a more careful check for problems in MPI_Wtime

use default cflags on alpha that work with either gcc or native compiler

Use distinct send and receive buffers

use mpicxx in preference to mpiCC for Mac OS X

Use mpicxx instead of mpiCC in examples/basic makefile

Use relative links

Use rm instead of /bin/rm for consistency with the other packages

Use rm instead of /bin/rm in MPE makefiles

use the PVFS readstrided function so we can use listio

use the proper type for oldtype_extent

use the real function name, since myname isn't always avaliable

Used env perl instead of a hard-coded perl path

Used environmental variables in enabling features of slog2sdk.

we now have a PVFS2_SUPER_MAGIC

winmpd: added -localroot option to mpirun to spawn the root process w/o mpd. This allows the root process to create visible windows and it allows the debugger to be attached to the root process

winmpd: added -nocache option to mpiregister

winmpd: added -nodetails flag to mpiregister

winmpd: added TCP_NODELAY to easy_sockets

winmpd: added check for WSAEINTT and WSAEINPROGRESS as non-fatal errors

winmpd: added check for error return value from ContextWriteString

winmpd: added checking of wall clock time to verify that functions don't timeout too early

winmpd: added error checking

winmpd: added host name to error output

winmpd: added new microsoft project files

winmpd: added smart caching to mpdupdate

winmpd: added smpd

winmpd: added the ability to specify the root host and the output redirection host names as ip addresses instead of host names

winmpd: added timeout to stat command to prevent hangs

winmpd: added try/catch to prevent crashing while traversing a bogus list

winmpd: better tmp file cleanup for -localonly option

winmpd: changed function call so it can still run on WindowsNT

winmpd: fixed -priority option

winmpd: fixed buffer overrun

winmpd: fixed errors caught by Insure

winmpd: fixed errors detected by insure++

winmpd: fixed launch counter by atomically incrementing it

winmpd: fixed multiply defined symbols error

winmpd: fixed redirectio port and ip string lookup

winmpd: made IsHostLocal() more robust and misc updates

winmpd: made the thread creation code more reliable

winmpd: more robust io thread creation

winmpd: mpirun now can launch both mpich1 and mpich2 applications with the addition of two new flags -mpich1 and -mpich2. The default is mpich1

winmpd: mpirun now uses the mpd database to determine if mpich2 applications have made it to mpi_finalize

winmpd: prints error code along with string

winmpd: remove cached password when 'mpiregister -remove' issued

winmpd: remove current user registry entry when uninstalling mpd

winmpd: reordered launch result message to avoid a potential timeout

winmpd: replaced stricmp with getopt

winmpd: reset variables after freeing to prevent use after release

winmpd: robust io thread creation

winmpd: the update tool now puts the new mpich dlls in the system32 directory if it cannot find the old dlls in the path

winmpd: update now always gets the files from the ftp site ignoring locally cached copies