[saga-rg] Re: Meeting Notes: Messaging API

[Andrei Hutanu]

I compiled all the notes on the wiki  : 
http://wiki.cct.lsu.edu/saga/space/SAGA+API/Messages

Andrei

Andre Merzky wrote:

>Hmm, that is what I initially wanted to say :-)  I should
>have marked in/out params more clearly...
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>Quoting [John Shalf] (Nov 22 2005):
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>>Whoops,
>>then we really need
>>	a) size is not known, so we do two step
>>	int getMessageSize(handle);
>>	<malloc by application>
>>	int read(handle,buffer,size)
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>>	b) size is not known, but we let implementation malloc automatically
>>	char *readAutoAllocate(handle);
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>>	c) size is known, so we just do a one-step read
>>	int read(handle,buffer,size);
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