On Feb 6, 2012, at 13:26 , Layla Martin-Samos wrote: > Dear Silvia, we moved to this intermediate input_tmp.in for > preparing pw > to the automatic detection of xml input format. There is no simple way > to overcome this step.
there are a few possibilities to prevent overwriting by other processes: - add a unique identifier, e.g. the process ID, to the file name; - add a random number to the file name; - rename the file to input_tmp_N.in, with N= smallest number such that no input_tmp_N.in is detected; but none is trivial to implement in a portable and safe way. I don't think however that the input file is copied to input_tmp.in, when it is read using the -in option (as opposed to " < file"). So everything should work if the -in (or -inp, or -input) option is used. Paolo --- Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Chemistry&Physics&Environment, Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
