# MPI_Comm_dup_with_info

Duplicates an existing communicator with all its cached information

## Synopsis

    int MPI_Comm_dup_with_info(MPI_Comm comm, MPI_Info info, MPI_Comm * newcomm)

## Input Parameters

comm
  Communicator to be duplicated (handle)
info
  info object (handle)

## Output Parameters

newcomm
  A new communicator over the same group as `comm` but with a new context. See notes. (handle)

## Notes

MPI_COMM_DUP_WITH_INFO behaves exactly as MPI_COMM_DUP except that the info hints associated with the communicator comm are not duplicated in newcomm. The hints provided by the argument info are associated with the output communicator newcomm instead.

## Thread and Interrupt Safety

This routine is thread-safe. This means that this routine may be safely used by multiple threads without the need for any user-provided thread locks. However, the routine is not interrupt safe. Typically, this is due to the use of memory allocation routines such as `malloc` or other non-MPICH runtime routines that are themselves not interrupt-safe.

## Notes for Fortran

All MPI routines in Fortran (except for `MPI_WTIME` and `MPI_WTICK`) have an additional argument `ierr` at the end of the argument list. `ierr` is an integer and has the same meaning as the return value of the routine in C. In Fortran, MPI routines are subroutines, and are invoked with the `call` statement.

All MPI objects (e.g., `MPI_Datatype`, `MPI_Comm`) are of type `INTEGER` in Fortran.

## Errors

All MPI routines (except `MPI_Wtime` and `MPI_Wtick`) return an error value; C routines as the value of the function and Fortran routines in the last argument. Before the value is returned, the current MPI error handler is called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job. The error handler may be changed with `MPI_Comm_set_errhandler` (for communicators), `MPI_File_set_errhandler` (for files), and `MPI_Win_set_errhandler` (for RMA windows). The MPI-1 routine `MPI_Errhandler_set` may be used but its use is deprecated. The predefined error handler `MPI_ERRORS_RETURN` may be used to cause error values to be returned. Note that MPI does not guarantee that an MPI program can continue past an error; however, MPI implementations will attempt to continue whenever possible.

MPI_SUCCESS
  No error; MPI routine completed successfully.

MPI_ERR_COMM
  Invalid communicator. A common error is to use a null communicator in a call (not even allowed in `MPI_Comm_rank`).

## See Also

MPI_Comm_dup, MPI_Comm_free, MPI_Keyval_create,
MPI_Attr_put, MPI_Attr_delete, MPI_Comm_create_keyval, MPI_Comm_set_attr, MPI_Comm_delete_attr