Hello,
I have a question regarding using “call system” to invoke an external Linux program in a piece of Fortran code. I am wondering if there is a way to have the compiler wait for the command wrapped in “call system” to finish before executing the following lines in the Fortran code.
In my Fortran code, I use “call system” to use a software called Ferret to spatially interpolate an input dataset onto a new grid and write the regridded data into an output file. The rest of the Fortran code then read that file to extract the regridded data. I suspect that, often times, the program starts reading the Ferret output file too soon before that file is fully written, which gives erroneous results. I am wondering if I can mandate the compiler to wait for the command invoked by “call system” to finish before executing the rest of the code. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Guangyu