On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Brice Goglin wrote:

> One comment, I see that you have a
>     hwloc_cpuset_copy (which I would have called  duplicate)
> but copy in the sense of assignment is not really possible (i.e.
> reusing an existing allocated cpuset, and initialize it with the
> content of another.

I need to think about this.


Can we cite any common cases where "copy" is used instead of "duplicate"? "copy" is certainly shorter. :-)

MPI has MPI_COMM_DUP, MPI_TYPE_DUP ("dup", not "duplicate").

If we don't like the verb "copy", how about "clone"?

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Jeff Squyres
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