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| author | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2016-03-23 20:26:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2016-03-23 20:26:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 674385b72e1987f68e27504b8224c60706d5b835 (patch) | |
| tree | 7908d824bd05386b4780b1ccbb71a8e53e8a74db | |
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[svn-r29542] Updated known problems section in RELEASE.txt.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index ac504ce..5e5f3a8 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -591,14 +591,23 @@ known issues if it is a new issue. (ADB - 2016/03/22, HDFFV-9734) - The flush/refresh test occasionally fails on OS X platforms. This is - being investigated and may be a problem with SWMR on HFS+. + being investigated but no fix or workaround is available at this time. (DER - 2016/03/22, HDFFV-9731) - The VDS/SWMR test will fail with a segmentation fault if the library - is built with --enable-using-memchecker. + is built with --enable-using-memchecker. The is due to a VDS shutdown + procedure freeing a shared resource too early when the memory + checker changes are built. This problem does not arise when the + memory checker changes are not used since the internal library free + lists behave differently. The memory checker configure option should + normally only be used under special circumstances so this should not + affect most users. Users should be aware that the --enable-using-memchecker + + VDS combination may cause a segfault, however, so Valgrind et al. may + have to be used with an HDF5 library built without the feature if this + proves to be a problem. (DER - 2016/03/21, HDFFV-9732) - - SWMR feature + - SWMR feature limitations The SWMR feature will only work if an HDF5 file under SWMR access resides on a file system that obeys POSIX write() ordering semantics. Because of this, SWMR will not work on network file systems such as NFS or SMB/Windows @@ -609,7 +618,7 @@ known issues if it is a new issue. obvious reasons for it to not work on NTFS or GPFS. (EIP - 2016/03/20, HDFFV-9733) - - VDS feature + - VDS feature limitation Currently, the path to a VDS source file is interpreted as relative to the directory where the executable program runs and not to the HDF5 file with the VDS dataset unless a full path to the source file is specified during |