Reasoning: The old behavior was a little confusing. mca_base_components_open does not open an output stream so it is a little unexpected that mca_base_components_close does. To add to this several frameworks (that don't use mca_base_components_close) failed to close their output in the framework close function and others closed their output a second time. This change is an improvement to the symantics of mca_base_components_open/close as they are now symetric in their functionality.
This commit was SVN r27570.
All interface APIs for accessing the info remain unchanged in opal/util/if.c.
This has been tested on Mac, Linux, and NetBSD. Nobody else seemed interested in testing it, so there may be some future problems revealed as people try it on other OSs.
This commit was SVN r23743.
