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- misc directory
- 09 October 1995
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- This directory contains a bunch of random PVM-related programs and
- utilities. They're here because they might be generally useful, but
- I don't want to kill myself supporting them. Like the "examples",
- even less official.
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- pvm_fork.c
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- This is an implementation of pvm_fork(), a function to fork a new PVM
- task from an existing PVM task.
-
- xhoster/
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- This is a little X-Windows program that enrolls as the hoster task,
- giving the user a convenient place to type passwords when starting
- hosts that require them.
-
- group-hack-337
-
- This is a patch to PVM version 3.3.7 to allow access to the virtual
- machine to anyone in a unix group. If environment variable PVM_GID
- is set to the name or number of a group, sockets and files are
- chown'd to that group and mode 0660 is used instead of 0600.
-
- Note that all spawned processes have the same user id as the pvmd,
- so this isn't a true multi-user virtual machine. This is seen as
- being useful mainly for allowing e.g. a group of people access to
- a database, or display or instrument server.
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