[Pvfs2-developers] Distribution by hostname

[Rob Ross]

A little off-topic, but the sprintf() approach is because MPI chose to 
use character strings as a portable format for hints. Very different set 
of constraints than us, makes a lot of sense in that set of constraints.

Rob

Sam Lang wrote:

> I view the underlying storage of the parameters and the interfaces to 
> those parameters to be orthogonal.  Storing them as strings probably 
> makes sense.  Making the caller sprintf into a string to create them 
> doesn't (even if that's what's mpich does :-)).