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In article <1jjvtuINNgdb@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> stud2@aifbmozart.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Norbert Kuck) writes:
>Hi out there !
>
>I have a problem concerning the INMOS ANSI C toolset. I am using 
>a 4-transputer configuration, where all transputers are connected to
>each other. Additionally, each transputer uses his link 0 to communicate
>with his personal iserver. So I have to start 4 iservers on my host
>and can watch all kinds of trace output from the net. Very nice.
>
>The problem is: Now that my program works better, I usually switch
>the tracing off, so that only the root transputer does any host-I/O.
>But I still have to start 4 iservers, otherwise the system hangs.
>
>To me it looks as if there is some mysterious communication between
>iserver and transputer, even if I don't call any I/O-function. So if
>there is no iserver there, the transputer will wait forever for the
>iserver to respond. 
>
>What can I do ? I would like to decide at configuration time if I
>want a host connection or not. I'd very much appreciate if anybody
>out there could give me a hint about that.
>
>Thanks in advance for your time - 
>
>Norbert Kuck
>stud2@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

The full C run-time library communicates with the iserver in order
to determine the command line arguments (argv).

The reduced mode libraries do not.

Are you configuring each transputer individually (each with a full run-time
library) or as a network of 4 transputers ?


-Nigel

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