deleting pnetcdf files

[Joachim Worringen]

Hi *,

it occured to me that the pnetcdf API, like the original NetCDF API, doesn't 
provide a function to delete a file. While this is no problem for NetCDF, as 
it is based on a sequential file system which always has this as a native 
functionality, things are different for pnetcdf which is based on MPI-IO. A 
file which is created via MPI-IO is not necessarily visible in any native 
file system. 

Thus, to be safe, a file created via pnetcdf would have to be delete via 
MPI_File_delete(). However, it is somewhat cumbersome to use two different 
APIs to access a file. Therefore, I propose some sort of ncmpi_delete(char 
*fname) function. An MPI_Info object might be passed as well, although I can 
not think of any application for this when deleting a file!?

 Joachim

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