[netCDF #EAY-251393]: Bugs in netcdf-4.1.1

> Russ,
> 
> On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Unidata netCDF Support wrote:
> 
> > I'm surprised at this.  fsync() is part of most Unix standards, and we
> > have reports that netCDF 4.1.1 has been built on CentOS without using
> > the --disable-fsync option to configure.  Also as far as I know mysql
> > and other open source database systems use fsync and run on CentOS.
> > Can you point to a reference about lack of CentOS support for fsync?
> > Is this for just a particular specific filesystem on CentOS?
> 
> 
> You are probably right.  On my system, the definition of fsync() in
> <unistd.h> is protected by #if defined __USE_BSD || defined
> __USE_XOPEN.  I don't know why -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 didn't define
> __USE_XOPEN.  Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention and I
> messed up on this one.

So it sounds like we've left out an #include <unistd.h> for building on 
Unix systems so the prototype will be visible.  That's a fix we need to
make.

> If you like, I will run my Makefile on your next beta version.  Can
> you let me know how to get it, or how to sign up somewhere, like on a
> mailing list?

Sure, that would be useful.  We announce beta releases on the 
address@hidden mailing list, which you can join here:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/faq.html#maillist

We also have a read-only svn tree of the current stable snapshot, which gets
updated more frequently than beta releases:

  http://svn.unidata.ucar.edu/repos/netcdf/

but that's mostly for use by active developers.

Thanks for your offer to help test on specific platforms.  We can only test on 
a few combinations, and more is better ...

--Russ

Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: EAY-251393
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed