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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:31:26 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: committed patches

On 2012-06-25 18:27, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 06:09 PM, magnum wrote:
>> For now, I did not apply the Markov-split-by-percent. I personally think
>> it's too near release and there may be dragons: Apart from the merge
>> problems it will give me (albeit on non-public trees), what happens if
>> you run MPI and use this option? And for that matter, what *should*
>> happen if you do?
>
> I just checked the source.
> The split of the start:end range over MPI nodes happens
> after all the other computations (convert % into real values, replace
> end=0 with real end, ...) are finished.
>
> I also made sure that the
> fprintf(stderr, "End: %s converted to "LLd"\n", end_token, mkv_end);
> happens only for mpi_id == 0 (if HAVE_MPI is defined).
>
> So, MPI should work just fine.

Fair enough. I'll wait for some more opinions, then I'll give it a shot.

magnum

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