Hi,
The code path is used when the user has /bin/sh as their login shell.
There seemed to be seperate code paths depending on the login shell. I
guess it is not suprising noone has looked at this part for a long
time, /bin/sh is not a popular choice :D. It *should* be easily
reproduceable if you made an account with a /bin/sh login shell.
The opening parens is generated at line 472 of
openmpi-1.4.1/orte/mca/plm/rsh/plm_rsh_module.c
tmp = opal_arg_split(" ( test ! -r ./.profile || . ./.profile;", ' '):
as can be seen from the comments above it and the lines 468 and 469
this logic only gets called if teh remote shell is SH or KSH, which I
guess is pretty rare. Where the closing one comes from we are not
sure.
Not sure how important this is, as you said it has been around for a
long time (we checked the 1.3 code), and there is a simple workaround
(tell users to swap to bash). We thought it would be good to at least
make a bug report
Jon
Ralph Castain wrote :
Can you pinpoint where you think the logic is incorrect? I can't
easily see where the parens are being added, and don't know anyone who
checks/uses that code path.
This hasn't been touched in a very long time, which makes me a tad
cautious in how this gets changed. Would need someone to either
provide a patch, or at least provide a means to test the result.
On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Jonathan Vincent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We had some trouble with a user using /bin/sh together with
> openmpi/1.4.1 (Centos 5 on amd64 processors, intel compiler 11.1)
>
> When spawning MPI processes on a different machine it gave errors such as
>
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `/usr/bin/env
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/pdc/vol/openmpi/1.4.1/intel/lib:/pdc/vol/i-compilers/11.1/icc/lib/intel64:/pdc/vol/i-compilers/11.1/ifort/lib/intel64
> ( test ! -r ./.profile || . ./.profile;
> /pdc/vol/openmpi/1.4.1/intel/bin/orted -mca ess env -mca
> orte_ess_jobid 284360704 -mca orte_ess_vpid 3 -mca orte_ess_num_procs
> 5 --hnp-uri "284360704.0;tcp://193.11.170.208:49530" )'
>
> openMPI is making a malformed statement
>
> i.e. a simpler version such as
>
> sh -c '/usr/bin/env FOO=bar (echo hello)'
> ksh -c '/usr/bin/env FOO=bar (echo hello)'
>
> is not valid
> sh -c '/usr/bin/env FOO=bar echo hello'
> works.
>
> This problem seems to be confined to the sh and ksh logic in
>
> openmpi-1.4.1/orte/mca/plm/rsh/plm_rsh_module.c
>
> Jon
