Instead of returning MPI_SUCCESS every time they are called regardless of the status of the call, they should return a value representative of the action. So similar to MPI_Wait/MPI_Test they will return MPI_SUCCESS if the action was successfull, or the value that matches status.MPI_ERROR for the operation if it is unsuccessful.
This was discussed on the [http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2011/03/9109.php ompi-devel list]
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