An MPI barrier completes after all group members have entered the
barrier.
.SH WHEN COMMUNICATOR IS AN INTER-COMMUNICATOR
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When the communicator is an inter-communicator, the barrier operation is performed across all processes in both groups. All processes in the first group may exit the barrier when all processes in the second group have entered the barrier.
Before the error value is returned, the current MPI error handler is
called. By default, this error handler aborts the MPI job, except for I/O function errors. The error handler may be changed with MPI_Comm_set_errhandler; 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.