Did we make any change in MPI 3.0 to allow nesting of MPI_Win_lock calls? For example, Win_lock(rank 1) Win_lock(rank 2) Win_unlock(rank 2) Win_unlock(rank 1) I can't find the text we added or deleted to allow this. But I do see text that disallows this: pg 437, ln 28: "Distinct access epochs for win at the same process must be disjoint." Rajeev