Subject: array of handles

From: [email-masked] (Al Geist)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 16:26:31 -0400

In section 1.2.2 of the latest p2p draft there is a notion of
array of handles. These are required in the waitall(), waitany()
functions. There is also discussion about len of these arrays.

My question: Is there a good reason against (or for) having
the notion of a handle to an array of handles in MPI ?

It has certain elegance in its generality and future extensibility
but I may be missing some fundamental flaw.
We have a similar concept with a group id, which can be thought
of as a handle to a list of process handles. (-:

Hardly thinking

Al Geist