Issue opening file on NFS read-only mount

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 11/13/2013 02:53 AM, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> Actually, it turns out to be simpler than it looks, at least on my system, and I
> have created bug 59108. You can show it by (a) seeing that it creates files even
> with ACTION='READ' (no, I didn't fiddle with STATUS) and (b) fails even when the
> directory has no write permission.
> 
> That reminds me that you might be able to make it go away by specifying
> ACTION='READ',STATUS='OLD', but I regard STATUS with utter loathing. It never
> has made sense (not even on the systems it was originally misdesigned for), and
> the best solution is not to set it (except for STATUS='SCRATCH').
> 

I should have been clearer in my previous post which suggested this.

Bob,

Please try ACTION='READ',STATUS='OLD' .  If it solves the problem, then it does
what I expect.

(I have already looked at the relevant libgfortran code involved here.)

Thanks,

Jerry