[Mpi3-tools] proccess ID type?

[Geoffrey R. Paulsen]

Hello,  I noticed a difference in the type used to declare pids in two different areas, and I'm curious:

  1) Why aren't they the same type?
  2) Why aren't we using a standardzed type like pid_t ?

Location 1) http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/mpi-debug/

        Taken from: mpich/mpid/ch2/attach.h

        typedef struct {
          char * host_name;           /* Something we can pass to inet_addr */
          char * executable_name;     /* The name of the image */
          int    pid;		      /* The pid of the process */
        } MPIR_PROCDESC;


Location 2) http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpi/mpi-debug/mpi_interface.h.html

        Taken from: mpich/src/infoexport/mpi_interface.h

        #if (FOR_MPI2)
        /* For handling attachment to new processes in MPI-2 we need to know
         * where they are.
         */
        typedef struct mqs_process_location {
          long pid;
          char image_name [FILENAME_MAX];
          char host_name  [64];
        } mqs_process_location;
        #endif


These two structures look to have similar purposes.  Is one a "newer" version of the other?  Are they from different MPI implementations of the MSQ?


  Thanks,
  Geoff Paulsen