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| author | Dana Robinson <43805+derobins@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-12-16 19:50:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-12-16 19:50:30 (GMT) |
| commit | a6b76a45b2c9cee3edb2474f8b97066bbcc37b62 (patch) | |
| tree | 32ba13313ef0f8cfc1391b57ac43049cecf9cec6 /release_docs | |
| parent | e4865ce716183485313238bcd6d5a82894ed5228 (diff) | |
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Adds h5delete tool (#187)
* Adds h5delete tool
* Fixed MANIFEST
* Added RELEASE.txt note
* Fix typo in RELEASE.txt
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 447f16e..053d321 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -576,6 +576,20 @@ New Features Tools: ------ + - Added h5delete tool + + Deleting HDF5 storage when using the VOL can be tricky when the VOL + does not create files. The h5delete tool is a simple wrapper around + the H5Fdelete() API call that uses the VOL specified in the + HDF5_VOL_CONNECTOR environment variable to delete a "file". If + the call to H5Fdelete() fails, the tool will attempt to use + the POSIX remove(3) call to remove the file. + + Note that the HDF5 library does currently have support for + H5Fdelete() in the native VOL connector. + + (DER - 2020/12/16) + - h5repack added options to control how external links are handled. Currently h5repack preserves external links and cannot copy and merge |