diff -Naupr coreutils-6.9-orig/src/cp.c coreutils-6.9/src/cp.c
--- coreutils-6.9-orig/src/cp.c	2007-03-18 17:36:43.000000000 -0400
+++ coreutils-6.9/src/cp.c	2009-01-16 09:46:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <getopt.h>
+#include <mpi.h>
 
 #include "system.h"
 #include "argmatch.h"
@@ -854,6 +855,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   char *target_directory = NULL;
   bool no_target_directory = false;
 
+  MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
+
   initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
   program_name = argv[0];
   setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
@@ -861,6 +864,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   textdomain (PACKAGE);
 
   atexit (close_stdout);
+  atexit (MPI_Finalize);
 
   cp_option_init (&x);