Mainly to Jeff Squyres, Hubert Ritzdorf, Rolf Rabenseifner, Nicholas Nevin, Bill Gropp, Dick Treumann This is a follow up to: MPI_FINALIZE in MPI-2 (with spawn) in http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/wgropp/projects/parallel/MPI/mpi-errata/index.h... with mail discussion in http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/wgropp/projects/parallel/MPI/mpi-errata/discuss... _________________________________________ When I understand correctly, then a clarification is not needed because the MPI standard expresses all, i.e. - MPI_Finalize need not to behave like a barrier - but is allowed to have a barrier inside. - If the user wants to exit one spawned process while the others still continue to work, he/she must disconnect this process before calling MPI_Finalize on it. If somebody wants a clarification to be included into the standard and therefore in Ballot 4, please send me your wording with the page and line references included. If all agree, that no clarification is needed, then I would finish this track. Best regards Rolf Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseifner_at_[hidden] High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530 University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832 Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany . (Office: Allmandring 30)