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- From: nigel@dodo.inmos.co.uk (Nigel Holder)
- Subject: Re: iserver required although no I/O is done ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.182001.26251@titan.inmos.co.uk>
- Keywords: QUESTION iserver C-toolset
- Sender: news@titan.inmos.co.uk
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
- References: <1jjvtuINNgdb@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:20:01 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1jjvtuINNgdb@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> stud2@aifbmozart.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Norbert Kuck) writes:
- >Hi out there !
- >
- >I have a problem concerning the INMOS ANSI C toolset. I am using
- >a 4-transputer configuration, where all transputers are connected to
- >each other. Additionally, each transputer uses his link 0 to communicate
- >with his personal iserver. So I have to start 4 iservers on my host
- >and can watch all kinds of trace output from the net. Very nice.
- >
- >The problem is: Now that my program works better, I usually switch
- >the tracing off, so that only the root transputer does any host-I/O.
- >But I still have to start 4 iservers, otherwise the system hangs.
- >
- >To me it looks as if there is some mysterious communication between
- >iserver and transputer, even if I don't call any I/O-function. So if
- >there is no iserver there, the transputer will wait forever for the
- >iserver to respond.
- >
- >What can I do ? I would like to decide at configuration time if I
- >want a host connection or not. I'd very much appreciate if anybody
- >out there could give me a hint about that.
- >
- >Thanks in advance for your time -
- >
- >Norbert Kuck
- >stud2@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
-
- The full C run-time library communicates with the iserver in order
- to determine the command line arguments (argv).
-
- The reduced mode libraries do not.
-
- Are you configuring each transputer individually (each with a full run-time
- library) or as a network of 4 transputers ?
-
-
- -Nigel
-
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