Re: Fortran WRITE changes ctime

From: pa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pierre Asselin)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:19:52 +0000 (UTC)

Leslie Ballentine <ballenti@xxxxxx> wrote:

open(unit=7,file=file7,access='APPEND')
do ...
...
write(7,610) t,ernorm,E,am1,am2,dm1,dm2,c12
610 format(f7.3,1pe10.1,e13.5,0p4f10.4,1pe10.2)
call flush(7)
...
enddo

Why is the ctime of the file being affected?

I use g77 and Suse Linux 9.3

I just straced a small example similar to your code sample. It
opens the file, seeks to the end and, for some reason, calls
ftruncate(). ftruncate() is what changes the ctime.

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