Re: [netcdf-hdf] bug in MPI cleanup

• To: Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdf-hdf] bug in MPI cleanup
• From: robl@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Latham)
• Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:00:30 -0500

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:52:31PM -0500, Quincey Koziol wrote:
> >I would advise not hooking MPI-IO cleanup into atexit(3): you already
> >correctly make the user call MPI_Init and MPI_Finalize.  Can hdf5
> >cleanup instead occur as part of nc_close?
> 
>       The way we normally suggest taking care of this sort of issue in MPI 
> programs is for the application program to call H5close() immediately  
> before calling MPI_Finalize().  Will that work for you?

Really?  Call H5Close inside a netcdf4 code?  Well, I can do that,
sure.  That seems to lack a certain symmetry, no?  

==rob

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Rob Latham
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