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MPI_Comm_join(3)                      MPI                     MPI_Comm_join(3)
NAME
       MPI_Comm_join -  Create a communicator by joining two processes
       connected by  a socket.
SYNOPSIS
       int MPI_Comm_join(int fd, MPI_Comm *intercomm)
INPUT PARAMETER
       fd     - socket file descriptor
OUTPUT PARAMETER
       intercomm
              - new intercommunicator (handle)
NOTES
       The socket must be quiescent before MPI_COMM_JOIN is called and after
       MPI_COMM_JOIN returns. More specifically, on entry to MPI_COMM_JOIN , a
       read on the socket will not read any data that was written to the
       socket before the remote process called MPI_COMM_JOIN .
THREAD AND INTERRUPT SAFETY
       This routine is thread-safe.  This means that this routine may be
       safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided
       thread locks.  However, the routine is not interrupt safe.  Typically,
       this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as malloc or
       other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-
       safe.
NOTES FOR FORTRAN
       All MPI routines in Fortran (except for MPI_WTIME and MPI_WTICK ) have
       an additional argument ierr at the end of the argument list.  ierr is
       an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine
       in C.  In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with
       the call statement.
       All MPI objects (e.g., MPI_Datatype , MPI_Comm ) are of type INTEGER in
       Fortran.
ERRORS
       All MPI routines (except MPI_Wtime and MPI_Wtick ) return an error
       value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in
       the last argument.  Before the value is returned, the current MPI error
       handler is called.  By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job.
       The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler (for
       communicators), MPI_File_set_errhandler (for files), and
       MPI_Win_set_errhandler (for RMA windows).  The MPI-1 routine
       MPI_Errhandler_set may be used but its use is deprecated.  The
       predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error
       values to be returned.  Note that MPI does not guarentee that an MPI
       program can continue past an error; however, MPI implementations will
       attempt to continue whenever possible.
       MPI_SUCCESS
              - No error; MPI routine completed successfully.
       MPI_ERR_ARG
              - Invalid argument.  Some argument is invalid and is not
              identified by a specific error class (e.g., MPI_ERR_RANK ).
LOCATION
       src/mpi/spawn/comm_join.c
                                   7/27/2010                  MPI_Comm_join(3)