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File Handles in Mixed Language Programming

I need a way to figure out how to obtain a listing of all files and there associated handles that a program has open at any given time during program execution. I need this because I am opening, reading, writing, and closing my files in Fortran, but I am locking and unlocking records in these files using C++ (the original LOCKING routine was eliminated by Microsoft when they created Fortran Powerstation). Anyway, I'm using Microsoft Developer Studio in conjuction with Visual C++ and Fortran Powerstation. There is no way in Fortran that I know of to obtain the handles of the files that it opens. Is there any other way I can get these handles? This will be a tough question, I think. It must be stored somewhere in some type of table, no?

JYoungman

My FORTRAN is a bit rusty now but it seems to me that the most convenient approach would probably be to WRITE your data into CHARACTER*(*) variables and then pass these to a C++ routine to do the actual I/O, and hence avoid opening the files from FORTRAN. I know it's sometimes difficult to pass a CHARACTER*(*) to another language, so you may have to use a CHARACTER*(nnn) instead.

If this just isn't possible, then I suggest you use two files. One ('FOO.DAT') is the one against which you do I/O from FORTRAN, and the other ("FOO.LCK") is the one against which you do the locking and unlocking from C++.

ardolino

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My problem is that I am doing a mass conversion of over 1000 programs written in FORTRAN that already having external function calls to lock and unlock records in a file, but all of the programs open, read, write, and close the files directly. If I could just obtain the handle of the file, I can replace the lock and unlock functions with c++ routines that can actually lock and unlock the files. (The original FORTRAN lock and unlock routines used the FORTRAN LOCKING command (no longer available)). If I can't get the handle, then I can always work something out with using two files, but if there is a way to get the handle, it would be a lot easier for me, even if getting the actual handle may be difficult. There has to be a way to get it, no?

JYoungman

Yes, I assume there is *some* way to get it. I don't have a copy of PowerStation here, and I'm currently booted to Linux, so I can't even search the MSDN library (since the MSDN library program only runs under Windows). I could tell you how to do it under Linux with g77 if you like :-) But seriously, I don't know how to get the file handle and don't have access to the relevant reference material at the moment.

Does this locking need to take place between machines over a network, or just on one machine?

ardolino

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I found a utility called File Monitor for Win95 and WinNT - it has source code, but I'm having a little trouble understanding it. I'll figure it out, though - it does what I want to do.

alexo

Can you post the URL where this utility is obtainable from?

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nietod

locking and unlocking need to be done synchronously. The change notification system is goig to opperate asynchronously. VERY asynchronously.