can't read /proc/cpuinfo

[Tim Prince]

jvdelisle@verizon.net wrote:
> Timothy C Prince wrote:
>> with gfortran 4.3 20070615, on x86-64 linux
>> open(11,file='/proc/cpuinfo',action='READ',iostat=ios)
>>
>> apparently succeeds (ios == 0)
>>
>> but then
>>
>> read(11,'(a)',iostat=ios)txtline
>>
>> immediately gives ios == -1
>>
>> Did I miss something obvious?
>>
>> I suppose it is possible to do
>> system("cat /proc/cpuinfo > txtfile")
>> and open that file, similar to what I do to capture uname data, but I 
>> preferred the scheme of reading directly, as ifort can do.
>> Tim Prince
>>
> This seems to be closer.  Each read gets a lines worth:
> 
>    character(256) :: astring
>    astring = ""
>    open(11,file='/proc/cpuinfo', form="formatted" , access="stream")
>    do i= 1, 10
>    read(11,'(a)') astring
>    print '(a)', astring
>    end do
>    end
> 
> I do want to look into why your approach does not work.
> 
OK, my source works with just the pre-processor conditional switch 
between the different OPEN parameters required by the two compilers. 
Maybe ifort will work with the same OPEN as gfortran, once the stream 
keyword is accepted.