[mpich-discuss] Output files not truncated?

[Joseph Schuchart]

All,

While debugging my application using good ol' printf and redirecting 
stderr and stdout to files using --outfile-pattern/--errfile-pattern, I 
realized that MPICH does not truncate output files if they already 
exist. This caused quite a bit of confusion on my side as the 
interesting information was located at the end of the application's 
output and I repeatedly found stale data before realizing that the files 
are not truncated.

Is this behavior intended?

How to reproduce:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo > test.log
$ mpirun --outfile-pattern test.log -n 1 hostname

Expected (from me at least): the file (only) contains the output of 
`hostname`.
Result: the file contains the output of `hostname` followed by the 
remaining content of /proc/cpuinfo.

Cheers,
Joseph
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Dipl.-Inf. Joseph Schuchart
High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
Nobelstr. 19
D-70569 Stuttgart

Tel.: +49(0)711-68565890
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E-Mail: schuchart at hlrs.de
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