Re: [Qucs-devel] ASCO

[Stefan J. <st...@gr...>]

Am Mo, 28.08.2006, 15:06, schrieb asco developer:

Hello!

>> It is not actually a "problem".  But in order to find out in which file
>> the results are located a program needs to run gethostname().  This is
>> ok for a user to find the file, since he/she knows the name.  But for
>> a program it is unconvenient since it requires to have "networking code"
>> though it has nothing to do with networking!
>
> So, what you are saying is that the program might not work when there
> is only 1 computer and no network name is defined. Is this correct?

No, this is not the problem.  There will be always a hostname (at least
named localhost or something).  But when using gethostname() you'll need
additional checks for certain headers and libraries on different
platforms *just for this one little function*.

> Just in case you do not know already, the last simulation is always
> executed by the machine where the optimization was started. If you
> have 3 computers (machine1, machine2 and machine3) and you start the
> optimization on machine1, the simulation with the lowest cost is
> stored in machine1.dat.

This is convenient anyway.

Cheers, Stefan.