message: Fixed: When appending to BP5 with a different number of processes, bpls -l fails because the minmax metadata request segfaults.
  Note: this does not fix a bigger issue that appending with more processes than before is not working properly.
diff: @@ -1801,6 +1801,11 @@ void *BP5Deserializer::GetMetadataBase(BP5VarRec *VarRec, size_t Step,
  MetaArrayRec *writer_meta_base = NULL;
  if (m_RandomAccessMode)
  {
  + if (Step >= m_ControlArray.size() ||
  + WriterRank >= m_ControlArray[Step].size())
  + {
  + return NULL; // we don't have this rank in this step
  + }
  ControlInfo *CI =
  m_ControlArray[Step][WriterRank]; // writer control array
  if (((*CI->MetaFieldOffset).size() <= VarRec->VarNum) ||
  