Re: [Condor-users] Pthreads and condor_compile

[Nick LeRoy <nleroy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri July 30 2004 8:46 am, Sven-Arne Reinemo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of our Condor users tried to use condor_compile on a program which
> uses pthreads, but this did not work very well. So I am wondering does
> condor_compile support programs that use pthreads? If not, is there any
> other thread libraries that are supported or should we just use the
> vanilla universe?

No, you can't do this in general, unless you're running completely user-space 
threads, which isn't very common.  Look in section 1.4 "Current Limitations" 
in the manual:

Limitations on Jobs which can Checkpointed 
Although Condor can schedule and run any type of process, Condor does have 
some limitations on jobs that it can transparently checkpoint and migrate: 

1. Multi-process jobs are not allowed. This includes system calls such as 
fork(), exec(), and system(). 
....
6. Multiple kernel-level threads are not allowed. However, multiple user-level 
threads are allowed. 
....

Sorry,

-Nick

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