issue with large environments

Pete Wyckoff pw at osc.edu
Mon May 23 10:15:21 EDT 2005


bcheung at cray.com wrote on Tue, 17 May 2005 17:01 -0700:
> I think I found an issue with mpiexec and large environments.  It seems 
> that the environment variable pointers are not updated when the 
> environment buffer is expanded.  The issue is with 0.77 but I believe it 
> still exists in 0.79.  Here's the diff I used for start_tasks.c,  Hope 
> it is correct.

Thanks for finding and fixing this old bug.  It was definitely a
problem and we were just lucky that not too many people apparently had
environments bigger than 8 kB.  I checked your changes in to the CVS
just now.

		-- Pete


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