and https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/708
Expand the NC_INMEMORY capabilities to support writing and accessing
the final modified memory.
Three new functions have been added:
nc_open_memio, nc_create_mem, and nc_close_memio.
The following new capabilities were added.
1. nc_open_memio() allows the NC_WRITE mode flag
so a chunk of memory can be passed in and be modified
2. nc_create_mem() allows the NC_INMEMORY flag to be set
to cause the created file to be kept in memory.
3. nc_close_mem() allows the final in-memory contents to be
retrieved at the time the file is closed.
4. A special flag, NC_MEMIO_LOCK, is provided to ensure that
the provided memory will not be freed or reallocated.
Note the following.
1. If nc_open_memio() is called with NC_WRITE, and NC_MEMIO_LOCK is not set,
then the netcdf-c library will take control of the incoming memory.
This means that the original memory block should not be freed
but the block returned by nc_close_mem() must be freed.
2. If nc_open_memio() is called with NC_WRITE, and NC_MEMIO_LOCK is set,
then modifications to the original memory may fail if the space available
is insufficient.
Documentation is provided in the file docs/inmemory.md.
A test case is provided: nc_test/tst_inmemory.c driven by
nc_test/run_inmemory.sh
WARNING: changes were made to the dispatch table for
the close entry. From int (*close)(int) to int (*close)(int,void*).
were added to provide a path name converter from e.g. cygwin
paths to e.g. windows paths. This is necessary because
the shell scripts may produce cygwin paths, but the code
may have been compiled with Visual Studio. Similar issues
arise with Mingw.
At appropriate places, and if using Visual Studio or Mingw,
I added calls to the path conversion code.
Apparently I forgot to find all the places where this
conversion was needed. So this pr does the following:
1. Push the calls to the converter to the various libXXX
directories and out of libdispatch/dfile.c.
2. Add conversion calls to other parts of the code like oc2.
I also turns out that conversion code in dapcvt.c
had a bug when handling DAP Byte type under visual studio.
Notes:
1. there may still be places I missed that need to do path conversion.
2. need to make sure that calls to e.g. H5open also use converted path.
