----- "Ralph Castain" <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > Let me point out the obvious since this has plagued > us at LANL with regard to this concept. If a user > wants to do something different, all they have to > do is download and build their own copy of OMPI.
One possibility may be to have OMPI honour a config file in /etc by default as well as the ones in $prefix, so if a user built their own copy then they would have to hack the code in order to disable the check. I also really liked the idea of OMPI outputing a message if a user tried to override a locked param, much better to explain why something is bad rather than just saying "no" (especially if you can say "no, but you could try..."). cheers! Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency
