[Mpi3-ft] Invalidate by any other name

George Bosilca bosilca at eecs.utk.edu
Mon Mar 12 10:03:50 CDT 2012


revoke +1.

  george.

On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:52 , Josh Hursey wrote:

> One of the lingering syntax issues from the MPI Forum meeting last week has to do with the MPI_*_invalidate() operation.
> 
> "Invalid communicator" has a well defined meaning in the MPI standard, so it is bad to have an alternative meeting for the FT functionally. Therefore, we need a new name for this 'invalidate' operation.
> 
> Below are some suggestions (thanks to Jeff Squyres and Thomas Herault for some of these):
> 
> suspend
> annul
> negate
> discredit
> disqualify
> neutralize
> quash
> revoke
> rescind
> repeal
> revoke
> nuke
> nix
> explode
> smite
> infirmo
> 
> Are there others that folks want to suggest?
> 
> I kind of like 'repeal' or 'revoke' since we are revoking the context associated with the communication object through this function.
> 
> -- Josh
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Hursey
> Postdoctoral Research Associate
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> http://users.nccs.gov/~jjhursey
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