[Pvfs2-developers] Re: Passing the entire param struct

[Robert Latham]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:03:06PM -0600, Sam Lang wrote:
> My proposal is to change the PVFS_dist_set_param call to take the  
> entire distribution param struct, instead of individual fields within  
> that struct.  This would force callers to first get the current  
> parameters, so that they weren't overwriting fields that had already  
> been set, but it would prevent the type error that occurred above.   

I like this idea a lot.  It does change the system interface API, but
this is a good time to make any changes: the summer release of MPICH2
will not be far off.

==rob

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Rob Latham
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