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| author | Mike McGreevy <mamcgree@hdfgroup.org> | 2010-11-17 15:08:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mike McGreevy <mamcgree@hdfgroup.org> | 2010-11-17 15:08:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 39e39746286dcb31adec94fbde0345587594cefd (patch) | |
| tree | 7a50eb19bb721ee9f822234b1b22861498e8e045 /release_docs | |
| parent | c249ccfd1502c428b820d6316a5cf7a0a9d5ca82 (diff) | |
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[svn-r19798] Purpose:
Add additional error checking to catch erroneous user input.
Description:
Attempting to retrieve a links's name by index in the case
where the link is external and the file that the object is
located in doesn't exist was causing a segmentation fault
(in production) and an assertion failure (in debug).
The segfault wasn't occuring until the metadata accumulator
attempted a write, so I've added error checking higher in
the pipeline in H5O_protect (where there was previously just
an assert) to catch this. I've also added additional asserts
in the H5F layer where there were none.
Additionally, I added another case to the links.c test to
test that this fails gracefully instead of segfaulting or
asserting out.
Tested:
h5committest and gandalf (mac os x)
Diffstat (limited to 'release_docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 35854bf..1d17c4e 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -249,6 +249,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Library ------- + - Retrieving a link's name by index in the case where the link is + external and the file that the link refers to doesn't exist will + now fail gracefully rather than cause a segmentation fault. + (MAM - 2010/11/17) - Modified library to always cache symbol table information. Libraries version 1.6.3 have a bug which causes them to require this information for some operations. (NAF - 2010/09/21 - 1864) |