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authorFrank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org>2002-05-02 21:40:33 (GMT)
committerFrank Baker <fbaker@hdfgroup.org>2002-05-02 21:40:33 (GMT)
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[svn-r5339]
Purpose: Elaboration on a struct field. Description: H5Gget_objinfo: Added caveats regarding 'fileno' field in H5G_stat_t struct. Platforms tested: IE 5
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@@ -587,6 +587,15 @@ create or access function.
HDF5 files which are open: if all four values are the same
between two objects, then the two objects are the same
(provided both files are still open).
+ <ul>
+ <li>Note that if a file is closed and re-opened, the
+ value in <code>fileno</code> will change.
+ <li>If a VFL driver either does not or cannot detect that
+ two <code>H5Fopen</code> calls referencing the same file
+ actually open the same file, each will get a different
+ <code>fileno</code>.
+ </ul>
+ <p>
The <code>nlink</code> field is the number of hard links to
the object or zero when information is being returned about a
symbolic link (symbolic links do not have hard links but
@@ -828,7 +837,7 @@ H5G&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu">HDF Help Desk</a>
<br>
-Last modified: 1 February 2002
+Last modified: 18 April 2002
<br>
Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.3, February 2002