[svn-r5338]

Purpose:
    Elaboration on a struct field
Description:
    H5Gget_objinfo: Added caveats regarding 'fileno' field in
        H5G_stat_t struct.
Platforms tested:
    IE 5

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/html/RM_H5G.html b/doc/html/RM_H5G.html
index fc37e02..dedd93a 100644
--- a/doc/html/RM_H5G.html
+++ b/doc/html/RM_H5G.html
@@ -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> 
 
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-Last modified:  18 August 2001
+Last modified:  18 April 2002
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 Describes HDF5 Release 1.5, Unreleased Development Branch