[mpich-discuss] Core dump in parse_args

[Zhou, Hui]

Hydra supports -configfile {name}​ option, so one could try putting all his commandline arguments in a file and pass that to hydra.

Hui

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I’m not aware of a hard-coded limit, but I am able to reproduce a segfault reliably by passing 1000 arguments a toy executable. Will update with more info when we have it.



Ken



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Thanks Rajeev for your reply.

I don’t have the exact number as of now. It’s definitely more than 1000. Is there a hard coded limit?



Regards
Tarun



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How many arguments?



Rajeev



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Subject: [mpich-discuss] Core dump in parse_args



Hi,

     I recently encountered this crash where mpiexec when executed from a bash script and with a large number of arguments crashes. The core dump is as follows:



#0  0x0000000000408ec3 in parse_args ()

#1  0x0000000000409f26 in HYD_uii_mpx_get_parameters ()

#2  0x000000000040397a in main ()



If I reduce the number of arguments then I don’t see the crash. Is it a known issue?



Regards

Tarun


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