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Commit cea1633a authored by Will Partain's avatar Will Partain
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[project @ 1996-01-22 19:53:46 by partain]

Minor doc fixes to SysMan.lc (WDP)
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......@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ PVM. SysMan is unusual in that it is not part of the executable
produced by ghc: it is a free-standing program that spawns PVM tasks
(logical PEs) to evaluate the program.
OK children, buckle down for some serious wierdness, it works like this.
OK children, buckle down for some serious weirdness, it works like this.
\begin{itemize}
\item The argument vector (argv) for SysMan has one the following 2 shapes:
@
\begin{verbatim}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SysMan path | debug flag | pvm-executable path | Num. PEs | Program Args ...|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
......@@ -26,21 +26,21 @@ OK children, buckle down for some serious wierdness, it works like this.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
| SysMan path | pvm-executable path | Num. PEs | Program Args ... |
-------------------------------------------------------------------
@
\end{verbatim}
The "pvm-executable path" is an absolute path of where PVM stashes the
code for each PE. The arguments passed on to each PE-executable
spawned by PVM are:
@
\begin{verbatim}
-------------------------------
| Num. PEs | Program Args ... |
-------------------------------
@
\end{verbatim}
The arguments passed to the Main-thread PE-executable are
@
\begin{verbatim}
-------------------------------------------------------------------
| main flag | pvm-executable path | Num. PEs | Program Args ... |
-------------------------------------------------------------------
@
\begin{verbatim}
\item SysMan's algorithm is as follows.
\begin{itemize}
\item use PVM to spawn (nPE-1) PVM tasks
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