Just stale code that doesn't hurt anything - frankly, I wouldn't look at 
platform files to try to get a handle on such things as they tend to fall out 
of date unless someone needs to change it.

We always hard-code progress threads to off because the code isn't thread safe 
in key areas involving the event library, for one.


On Mar 10, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Eugene Loh wrote:

> In the trunk, we hardwire progress threads to be off.  E.g.,
> 
> % grep progress configure.ac
> # Hardwire all progress threads to be off
> enable_progress_threads="no"
>                  [Hardcode the ORTE progress thread to be off])
>                  [Hardcode the OMPI progress thread to be off])
> 
> So, how do I understand the following?
> 
> % grep enable_progress contrib/platform/*/*.conf
> contrib/platform/cisco/linux-static.conf:orte_enable_progress_threads = 1
> contrib/platform/cisco/macosx-dynamic.conf:orte_enable_progress_threads = 1
> contrib/platform/openrcm/debug.conf:orte_enable_progress_threads = 1
> % grep enable_progress contrib/platform/*/*/*.conf
> contrib/platform/cisco/ebuild/hlfr.conf:orte_enable_progress_threads = 1
> contrib/platform/cisco/ebuild/ludd.conf:orte_enable_progress_threads = 1
> contrib/platform/cisco/ebuild/native.conf:orte_enable_progress_threads = 1
> 
> These seem to try to turn progress threads on.  Ugly, but not a problem?
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