[Mpi3-ft] Invalidate by any other name

Aurélien Bouteiller bouteill at eecs.utk.edu
Mon Mar 12 18:26:38 CDT 2012


I like revoke too
Aurelien 




Le 12 mars 2012 à 17:22, Thomas Herault a écrit :

> revoke +1
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Le 12 mars 2012 à 12:41, Darius Buntinas a écrit :
> 
>> 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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