Figure 6-9. Directories Searched Based on File Domain

The operation of the FCLOSE intrinsic used with unlabeled magnetic tape is dependen t on conditions within the process using the device. It is possible for a single process to HPFOPEN (or FOPEN ) a magnetic tape device using a device class and later HPFOPEN (or FOPEN ) on the same device again b y using its device name/logical device n umber. You can do this in a w ay that makes more than one tape ￿le open concurren tly.

When no concurrent tape ￿les are open, a tape is closed with the temporary no-rewind disposition, rew ound, and unloaded. When ￿le open and ￿le close calls are nested, tape ￿les can be closed without deallocating the ph ysical device, as sho wn in Figure 6-10.

File System 6-19