Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase %I% %G% SMI This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction
    1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
	 pdsh Ver 2.18
    1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
	 Author:  Vivek R. Titarmare
    1.3  Date of This Document:
	 3rd April, 2009

2. Project Summary
   2.1 Project Description

	Parallel command execution for clusters

4. Technical Description:

	Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility. It has built-in, thread-safe clients for Berkeley and Kerberos V4 rsh and can call SSH externally (though with reduced performance). Pdsh uses a "sliding window" parallel algorithm to conserve socket resources on the initiating node and to allow progress to continue while timeouts occur on some connections.
	
	Pdsh is a variant of the rsh(1) command. Unlike rsh(1), which runs commands on a single remote host, pdsh can run multiple remote commands in parallel. pdsh uses a "sliding window" (or fanout) of threads to conserve resources on the the initiating host while allowing some connections to time out. 	

5. Interfaces 

	The binary file "pdsh" contains following interface.

   Exported interface                   Classification 		Interface type
   =============================        ============== 		==============
	SUNWpdsh                        Committed         	package name
	usr/bin/dshbak			Uncommitted		binary
   	usr/bin/pdcp			Uncommitted		binary
   	usr/bin/pdsh			Uncommitted		binary
   	usr/bin/rpdcp			Uncommitted		binary
   	usr/lib/pdsh/xrcmd.so		Uncommitted		shared library
   	usr/lib/pdsh/xrcmd.la		Uncommitted		library tool
   	usr/lib/pdsh/xrcmd.a		Uncommitted		static library
   	usr/lib/pdsh/execcmd.so		Uncommitted		shared library
   	usr/lib/pdsh/execcmd.la		Uncommitted		library tool
   	usr/lib/pdsh/execcmd.a		Uncommitted		static library
   	
	PDSH_RCMD_TYPE			Uncommitted		override standard argument
	PDSH_SSH_ARGS			Uncommitted		override standard argument
	PDSH_SSH_ARGS_APPEND		Uncommitted		override standard argument
	WCOLL				Uncommitted		override standard argument
	DSHPATH				Uncommitted		override standard argument
	FANOUT				Uncommitted		override standard argument

   Imported interface        Classification   Comments
   =======================   ==============   =================================== 
	None

   The binary file would go in "usr/bin" and the libraries would go in "usr/lib"


6. Resources and Schedule
    6.4. Steering Committee requested information
   	6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
		SFW
    6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
    6.6. ARC Exposure: open