[Mpi3-ft] Invalidate by any other name

[Darius Buntinas]

terminate
retire
abate

-d


On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Darius Buntinas wrote:

> disable?
> 
> 
> -d
> 
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:52 AM, 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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