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<MAN>
  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
  <TITLE>pvm_gettid</TITLE>
  <TYPE>Scilab function</TYPE>
  <DATE>May 1998</DATE>
  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="pvm_gettid"> returns the tid of the process identified by a group name and instance number</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>[tid] = pvm_gettid(group, inum)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
  <PARAM>
    <PARAM_INDENT>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>group</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: string, string that contains the name of an existing group.</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>inum</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: string, instance number of the process in the group.</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>tid</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: integer</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
    </PARAM_INDENT>
  </PARAM>
  <DESCRIPTION>
    <P><VERB>pvm_gettid</VERB> 
    returns the tid of the PVM process
    identified by the group name <VERB>group</VERB> 
    and the instance number <VERB>inum</VERB></P>
    <P>
    The returned value <VERB>tid</VERB>will be &gt;= 0 if 
    the call is successful and will be 
    will be &lt; 0 if some error occurs.</P>
  </DESCRIPTION>
  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>pvm_joingroup</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
      <LINK>pvm_getinst</LINK>
    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
  </SEE_ALSO>
</MAN>
