[Mpi3-ft] FT / IO Joint Session at next meeting

[Wesley Bland]

The main thing we wanted to discuss was to check in and make sure that the text we have for the I/O is still sufficient and see if there is anything else worth pursuing with respect the FT + I/O.

The current behavior is that if there is a failure, the state of the file pointer is undefined and you essentially have to start over. Also, because I/O functions don't synchronize, there's no guarantee of failure notification via the I/O functions and the user might need to provide their own notification mechanism using communicator-based functions.

If the I/O group doesn't have anything to add to that, then we could probably push that discussion out or fold it into the I/O time. The only conflict there is the Tools WG and as far as I know, there isn't anyone in FT and Tools.

Thanks,
Wesley

On May 21, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Mohamad Chaarawi <chaarawi at hdfgroup.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Are there any important discussion items about FT and I/O that warrants a full hour of joint WG time at the Forum meeting in 2 weeks?
> I remember reading here once that there might be something to be done to the I/O chapter, but don't recall any items for discussion.
> If there is not much to talk about, I would ping Martin to cancel this slot or just merge it into the I/O WG time since I don't have much to discuss there anyway.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mohamad
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