I'm not sure if this is the cause of your problems:
You define the constant BUFFER_SIZE, but in the code you use a constant
called BUFSIZ...
Jody


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Jean Potsam <jeanpot...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Dear All,
>               I am having a problem with openmpi . I have installed openmpi
> 1.4 and blcr 0.8.1
>
> I have written a small mpi application as follows below:
>
> #######################
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <limits.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <mpi.h>
> #include<signal.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> #define BUFFER_SIZE PIPE_BUF
>
> char * getprocessid()
> {
>     FILE * read_fp;
>     char buffer[BUFSIZ + 1];
>     int chars_read;
>     char * buffer_data="12345";
>     memset(buffer, '\0', sizeof(buffer));
>   read_fp = popen("uname -a", "r");
>      /*
>       ...
>  */
>      return buffer_data;
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char ** argv)
> {
>   MPI_Status status;
>  int rank;
>    int size;
> char * thedata;
>     MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
>     MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&size);
>     MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&rank);
>  thedata=getprocessid();
>  printf(" the data is %s", thedata);
>     MPI_Finalize();
> }
> ############################
>
> I get the following result:
>
> #######################
> jean@sunn32:~$ <jean@sunn32:%7E$> mpicc pipetest2.c -o pipetest2
> jean@sunn32:~$ <jean@sunn32:%7E$> mpirun -np 1 -am ft-enable-cr -mca btl
> ^openib  pipetest2
> [sun32:19211] *** Process received signal ***
> [sun32:19211] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
> [sun32:19211] Signal code: Address not mapped (1)
> [sun32:19211] Failing at address: 0x4
> [sun32:19211] [ 0] [0xb7f3c40c]
> [sun32:19211] [ 1] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x3b) [0xb796868b]
> [sun32:19211] [ 2] /usr/local/blcr/lib/libcr.so.0(cri_info_free+0x2a)
> [0xb7a5925a]
> [sun32:19211] [ 3] /usr/local/blcr/lib/libcr.so.0 [0xb7a5ac72]
> [sun32:19211] [ 4] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_fork+0x186) [0xb7991266]
> [sun32:19211] [ 5] /lib/libc.so.6(_IO_proc_open+0x7e) [0xb7958b6e]
> [sun32:19211] [ 6] /lib/libc.so.6(popen+0x6c) [0xb7958dfc]
> [sun32:19211] [ 7] pipetest2(getprocessid+0x42) [0x8048836]
> [sun32:19211] [ 8] pipetest2(main+0x4d) [0x8048897]
> [sun32:19211] [ 9] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7912455]
> [sun32:19211] [10] pipetest2 [0x8048761]
> [sun32:19211] *** End of error message ***
> #####################################################
>
>
> However, If I compile the application using gcc, it works fine. The problem
> arises with:
>   read_fp = popen("uname -a", "r");
>
> Does anyone has an idea how to resolve this problem?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Jean
>
>
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