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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear NCL Team,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When running a large number of parallel NCL jobs using the readAsciiTable function (contributed.ncl) I realized that the function is not thread safe, e.g. may fail. The reason is that it writes a temporary ascii file
and deletes it again at the end of the function. If now two parallel jobs want to write to the temporary file at exactly the same time, one is not allowed and will crash. One method to circumvent the problem would be to use a random number and/or the process
ID in the file name of the temporary file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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