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| author | Frank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org> | 2001-07-06 02:32:06 (GMT) |
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| committer | Frank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org> | 2001-07-06 02:32:06 (GMT) |
| commit | cfa36589316578e0fd6b1f315b48bffc0bf745d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e0042d948eaa355bd7aab61cf385f70073afaeb /doc/html/RM_H5F.html | |
| parent | 1af1fe8d8af227d11cb10c7c65a7dfee90377bf3 (diff) | |
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[svn-r4126] Purpose:
Bugfixes and editing.
Description:
RM_H5T.html
H5Tget_class -- Added H5T_ARRAY to list of valid datatype class IDs.
Closes bug #611.
-- Minor formatting issue in same command.
RM_H5F.html
H5Fflush -- Added "Note:" re H5 vs OS buffers.
H5Fclose -- Corrected mentions of H5close to read H5Fclose.
RM_H5P.html
Removed () from several H5* function names in running text.
Platforms tested:
IE 5
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/html/RM_H5F.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/html/RM_H5F.html | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/html/RM_H5F.html b/doc/html/RM_H5F.html index 0f15852..fbcbcc2 100644 --- a/doc/html/RM_H5F.html +++ b/doc/html/RM_H5F.html @@ -291,6 +291,12 @@ facilitate moving easily between them.</i> <td align=left valign=bottom>Flushes only the specified file.</td></tr> </table> </center> +<dt><strong>Note:</strong> + <dd>HDF5 does not possess full control over buffering. + <code>H5Fflush</code> flushes the internal HDF5 buffers then + asks the operating system (the OS) to flush the system buffers for the + open files. After that, the OS is responsible for ensuring that + the data is actually flushed to disk. <dt><strong>Parameters:</strong> <dl> <dt><em>hid_t </em><code>object_id</code> @@ -447,11 +453,11 @@ facilitate moving easily between them.</i> <p> <strong>EXCEPTION:</strong> Note the following deviation from the above-described behavior. - If <code>H5close</code> is called for a file but one or more + If <code>H5Fclose</code> is called for a file but one or more objects within the file remain open, those objects will remain accessible until they are individually closed. Thus, if the dataset <code>data_sample</code> is open when - <code>H5close</code> is called for the file containing it, + <code>H5Fclose</code> is called for the file containing it, <code>data_sample</code> will remain open and accessible (including writable) until it is explicitely closed. The file will be automatically closed once all objects in the |