MPI_Comm_idup(3)

NAME
MPI_Comm_idup - Start the nonblocking duplication of an existing communicator with all its cached information.

SYNTAX

C Syntax
#include <mpi.h>
int MPI_Comm_idup(MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Comm *newcomm, MPI_Request *request)

Fortran Syntax
USE MPI
! or the older form: INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
MPI_COMM_IDUP(COMM, NEWCOMM, REQUEST, IERROR)
	INTEGER	COMM, NEWCOMM, REQUEST, IERROR

INPUT PARAMETER

comm
    Communicator (handle).

OUTPUT PARAMETERS

newcomm
    Copy of comm (handle).

request
    Communication request (handle).

IERROR
    Fortran only: Error status (integer).

DESCRIPTION
MPI_Comm_idup starts the nonblocking duplication of an existing communicator comm with associated key values. For each key value, the respective copy callback function determines the attribute value associated with this key in the new communicator; one particular action that a copy callback may take is to delete the attribute from the new communicator. Returns in newcomm a new communicator with the same group, any copied cached information, but a new context (see Section 5.7.1 of the MPI-1 Standard, "Functionality"). The communicator returned in newcomm will not be available until the request is complete.

The completion of a communicator duplication request can be determined by calling any of MPI_Wait, MPI_Waitany, MPI_Test, or MPI_Testany with the request returned by this function.

NOTES
This operation is used to provide a parallel library call with a duplicate communication space that has the same properties as the original communicator. This includes any attributes (see below) and topologies (see Chapter 6, "Process Topologies," in the MPI-1 Standard). This call is valid even if there are pending point-to-point communications involving the communicator comm. A typical call might involve an MPI_Comm_idup at the beginning of the parallel call, and an MPI_Comm_free of that duplicated communicator at the end of the call. Other models of communicator management are also possible.

This call applies to both intra- and intercommunicators. Note that it is not defined by the MPI standard what happens if the attribute copy callback invokes other MPI functions. In Open MPI, it is not valid for attribute copy callbacks (or any of their children) to add or delete attributes on the same object on which the attribute copy callback is being invoked.

ERRORS
Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument.

Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; the predefined error handler MPI_ERRORS_RETURN may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error.

SEE ALSO
MPI_Comm_dup MPI_Comm_dup_with_info