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PetscSharedTmp

Determines if all processors in a communicator share a /tmp or have different ones.

Synopsis

PetscErrorCode  PetscSharedTmp(MPI_Comm comm,PetscBool  *shared)
Collective

Input Parameters

comm - MPI_Communicator that may share /tmp

Output Parameters

shared - PETSC_TRUE or PETSC_FALSE

Options Database Keys

-shared_tmp - indicates the directory is shared among the MPI ranks
-not_shared_tmp - indicates the directory is not shared among the MPI ranks
-tmp tmpdir - name of the directory you wish to use as /tmp

Environmental Variables

PETSC_SHARED_TMP - indicates the directory is shared among the MPI ranks
PETSC_NOT_SHARED_TMP - indicates the directory is not shared among the MPI ranks
PETSC_TMP - name of the directory you wish to use as /tmp

Notes

Stores the status as a MPI attribute so it does not have to be redetermined each time.

Assumes that all processors in a communicator either 1) have a common /tmp or 2) each has a separate /tmp eventually we can write a fancier one that determines which processors share a common /tmp.

This will be very slow on runs with a large number of processors since it requires O(p*p) file opens.

If the environmental variable PETSC_TMP is set it will use this directory as the "/tmp" directory.

Level

developer

Location

src/sys/fileio/fretrieve.c
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