From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Thu Jan 22 05:13:35 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom7 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom7@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 0041FCA3432; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:13:34 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from sca-es-mail-2.sun.com (sca-es-mail-2.Sun.COM [192.18.43.133]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA19C178D9 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:13:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from fe-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n0M4DN4m028760 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:13:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-09.sun.com by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0KDU00F01UDG7A00@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Robert.Corbett@Sun.COM) for sc22wg5@open-std.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:13:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.146.84.104] by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0KDU00KNRUEBWO60@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com>; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:13:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:13:23 -0800 From: Robert Corbett Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.3882) WG5 Ballot 6 (N1765) In-reply-to: <20090122033039.95FC7C178D9@www2.open-std.org> To: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov, fortran standards email list for J3 Cc: sc22wg5 Reply-To: Robert.Corbett@Sun.COM Message-id: <4977F263.9020707@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <20090122033039.95FC7C178D9@www2.open-std.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060509 Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Van Snyder wrote: > F03/0117: Making the whole file undefined seems a bit harsh. Couldn't > this have been "the record being written when the program is > terminated?" That change would place a burden on I/O buffering that would hurt the performance of many implementations. For some types of devices, it might even be impossible to implement. Bob Corbett