.PVM.bufinfo {rpvm}R Documentation

Message buffer infomation

Description

Returns information about the requested message buffer.

Usage

.PVM.bufinfo (bufid)

Arguments

bufid

id of a particular message buffer

Details

Returns information about the requested message buffer. Typically it is used to determine about the last received message such as it size or source. It is especially useful when an application is able to receive any incoming message (with the use of wildcards).

Value

Return a list (bytes, msgtag, tid) of information about the requested message buffer.

bytes

the length in bytes of the entire message

msgtag

the message label

tid

the source of the message

Author(s)

Na (Michael) Li nali@umn.edu and A.J. Rossini rossini@u.washington.edu

References

PVM documentation

See Also

.PVM.send, .PVM.nrecv, .PVM.recv

Examples

## Not run: bufid <- .PVM.recv (-1, -1)
## Not run: info <- .PVM.bufinfo (bufid)

[Package rpvm version 1.0-4 Index]