From b8c3dcf5e075cc961b2693b1fcb8d1b8604e8f7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Schmidt <alex@treefish.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:17:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 writeout.cpp | 24 +-----------------------
 writeout.h   |  1 -
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/writeout.cpp b/writeout.cpp
index 81f1e02..3849ac9 100644
--- a/writeout.cpp
+++ b/writeout.cpp
@@ -13,24 +13,6 @@
 
 using namespace std;
 
-bool writeout::DirectoryExists( const char* pzPath )
-{
-    if ( pzPath == NULL) return false;
-
-    DIR *pDir;
-    bool bExists = false;
-
-    pDir = opendir (pzPath);
-
-    if (pDir != NULL)
-    {
-        bExists = true;    
-        (void) closedir (pDir);
-    }
-
-    return bExists;
-}
-
 string writeout::tstamp(const long& timestamp)
 {
   stringstream sstr;
@@ -47,11 +29,7 @@ writeout::writeout(const string& wdir, const string& signature,
     sprintf(cRank, "%d", rank);
     fulldir = wdir + "/" + tstamp(timestamp) + "_" + signature + ".tmp";
 
-    for(int itry=0; itry<100 && (!DirectoryExists(fulldir.c_str())); itry++) {
-      if (rank==0) 
-	mkdir( fulldir.c_str(), 0775);
-      sleep(1);
-    }
+    mkdir(fulldir.c_str(), 0775);
 
     if(rank>0) of.open( (fulldir + "/rank" + cRank + ".tmp").c_str() );
     else of.open( (fulldir + "/" + signature + ".dat").c_str() );
diff --git a/writeout.h b/writeout.h
index 6c04ace..e7c3ea1 100644
--- a/writeout.h
+++ b/writeout.h
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ class writeout
   int numprocs;
   string getdatfile();
   string timestring();
-  static bool DirectoryExists(const char* pzPath);
 };
 
 #endif
-- 
2.39.5