The pnetcdf support was not
properly being used to provide
mpi parallel io for netcdf-3 classic
files. The wrong dispatch table was being
used. The fix was to modify
dfile.c#NC_check_file_type to properly
specify the pnetcdf dispatch table when
use_parallel was true.
Add a new function called nc_inq_format_extended that
returns more detailed format information (vis-a-vis
nc_inq_format) about an open dataset.
Note that the netcdf API will present the file as if it had
the format specified by nc_inq_format. The true file
format, however, may not even be a netcdf file; it might be
DAP, HDF4, or PNETCDF, for example. This function returns
that true file type. It also returns the effective mode for
the file.
signature: nc_inq_format_extended(int ncid, int* formatp, int* modep)
where
* ncid is the NetCDF ID from a previous call to nc_open() or
nc_create().
* formatp is a pointer to a location for returned true format.
* modep is a pointer to a location for returned mode flags.
Refer to the actual list in the file netcdf.h to see the
currently defined set.
Also added test cases (tst_formatx*).
group renaming. The primary API
is 'nc_rename_grp(int grpid, const char* name)'.
No test cases provided yet.
This also required adding a rename_grp entry
to the dispatch tables.
unlimited dimension hanging. Extending the size of an unlimited
dimension in HDF5 must be a collective operation, so now an error is
returned if trying to extend in independent access mode.
Quincey's bug fixes for parallel build portability, particularly
OpenMPI on MacOS-X.
(primarily from libsrc4)
into its own dispatch library
called libsrc5.
2. Fixed part of Jira NCF-253
by removing the need for the
pnetcdf_ndims field.
For some reason, the original
code tried to cache the variable
ranks rather than computing them
as needed. Fixed by doing
an ...inq_varndims call as needed.
3. found some places where NC_MAX_DIMS
was being stack allocated and changed
to heap allocation.
Still some cases in nc_test4.
