[Beowulf] Stupid MPI programming question

[Robert G. Brown]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Clements, Brent M (SAIC) wrote:

> Ok, here is the code I'm working with....mkdir keeps giving me a -1
> failure...can anyone spot what I"m doing wrong?

What is errno on the return?  That might give you an idea of what is
causing the problem (see list of error codes in man 2 mkdir).

>         char fullpath[10000];
>         sprintf(fullpath,"/tmp/oooo/RANK%d", my_rank);
>         printf("MY PATH TO CREATE %s", fullpath);
>         int mkdir_return;
>         mkdir_return = mkdir(fullpath,0777);
>         printf("mkdir results: %d\n", mkdir_return);

Um, does /tmp/oooo exist?  I don't think mkdir(2) does the equivalent of
mkdir -p and create parent directories as required.  Also are the slaves
successfully printing out the line(s) showing that they have fullpath
set as you expect?

    rgb

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