Persistent Messages
- Tasks can store and retrieve messages by name
- Distributed information database for
dynamic programs
- provides rendezvous, attachment, groups, many uses.
Multiple messages per “name” possible
index = pvm_putinfo( name, msgbuf, flag)
pvm_recvinfo( name, index, flag )
pvm_delinfo( name, index, flag )
pvm_getmboxinfo( pattern, #names, array of struct )