MPI_WIN_POST(3)

💖 MPI_Win_post(3) — Open MPI 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Open MPI man page for MPI_Win_post, and honestly? it's giving door opener of the RMA world. 🚪✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

MPI_Win_post — starts an RMA exposure epoch for the local window associated with win

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✨ SYNTAX ✨

🎀 C Syntax

#include <mpi.h>

int MPI_Win_post(MPI_Group group, int assert, MPI_Win win)

🎀 Fortran Syntax

USE MPI
! or the older form: INCLUDE 'mpif.h'
MPI_WIN_POST(GROUP, ASSERT, WIN, IERROR)
     INTEGER GROUP, ASSERT, WIN, IERROR

🎀 Fortran 2008 Syntax

USE mpi_f08
MPI_Win_post(group, assert, win, ierror)
     TYPE(MPI_Group), INTENT(IN) :: group
     INTEGER, INTENT(IN) :: assert
     TYPE(MPI_Win), INTENT(IN) :: win
     INTEGER, OPTIONAL, INTENT(OUT) :: ierror

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🦋 INPUT PARAMETERS 🦋

• group — the group of origin processes, as a handle 💫
• assert — program assertion, it's an integer
• win — the window object, also a handle

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🌈 OUTPUT PARAMETERS 🌈

• ierror — Fortran only: error status (integer).

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So like. MPI_Win_post starts an RMA exposure epoch for the local window associated with win. Only the processes belonging to group should access the window with RMA calls on win during this epoch. Every single process in group has to issue a matching call to MPI_Win_start. And the best part? MPI_Win_post does not block. no waiting around, she's not that kind of function 💅

The assert argument is used to provide assertions on the context of the call that may be used for various optimizations. A value of assert ^ 0 is always valid. The following assertion values are supported:

• MPI_MODE_NOCHECK — the matching calls to MPI_Win_start have not yet occurred on any origin processes when this call is made. This assertion must be present for all matching MPI_Win_start calls if used.
• MPI_MODE_NOSTORE — informs that the local window was not updated by local stores or get calls in the preceding epoch.
• MPI_MODE_NOPUT — informs that the local window will not be updated by put or accummulate calls until the ensuing wait synchronization.

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😭 ERRORS 😭

Almost all MPI routines return an error value; C routines as the return result of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument.

Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler associated with the communication object (e.g., communicator, window, file) is called. If no communication object is associated with the MPI call, then the call is considered attached to MPI_COMM_SELF and will call the associated MPI error handler. When MPI_COMM_SELF is not initialized (i.e., before MPI_Init/MPI_Init_thread, after MPI_Finalize, or when using the Sessions Model exclusively) the error raises the initial error handler. The initial error handler can be changed by calling MPI_Comm_set_errhandler on MPI_COMM_SELF when using the World model, or the mpi_initial_errhandler CLI argument to mpiexec or info key to MPI_Comm_spawn/MPI_Comm_spawn_multiple. If no other appropriate error handler has been set, then the MPI_ERRORS_RETURN error handler is called for MPI I/O functions and the MPI_ERRORS_ABORT error handler is called for all other MPI functions.

Open MPI includes three predefined error handlers that can be used:

• MPI_ERRORS_ARE_FATAL — causes the program to abort all connected MPI processes. 💀
• MPI_ERRORS_ABORT — an error handler that can be invoked on a communicator, window, file, or session. When called on a communicator, it acts as if MPI_Abort was called on that communicator. If called on a window or file, acts as if MPI_Abort was called on a communicator containing the group of processes in the corresponding window or file. If called on a session, aborts only the local process.
• MPI_ERRORS_RETURN — returns an error code to the application.

MPI applications can also implement their own error handlers by calling:

• MPI_Comm_create_errhandler then MPI_Comm_set_errhandler
• MPI_File_create_errhandler then MPI_File_set_errhandler
• MPI_Session_create_errhandler then MPI_Session_set_errhandler or at MPI_Session_init
• MPI_Win_create_errhandler then MPI_Win_set_errhandler

Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error. fr fr, plan accordingly bestie 🫶

See the MPI man page for a full list of MPI error codes.

See the Error Handling section of the MPI-3.1 standard for more information.

See also:

• MPI_Win_start
• MPI_Win_wait

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🧚 Copyright 🧚

2003-2026, The Open MPI Community

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the Open MPI MPI_Win_post(3) manual page, dated Sep 10, 2026. go open those epochs 👑💜