[svn-r21152] Description:

	Further patches for Jira 7638, to ensure that H5D/Aget_type will
be attached to the correct top file.  (This change to the library should
reverted when Jira 7638 is finally finished)

Tested on:
        FreeBSD/32 8.2 (loyalty) w/gcc4.6, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
        FreeBSD/64 8.2 (freedom) w/gcc4.6, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode
        Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x,
                w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
        Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (koala) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x,
                w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode
        Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN,
                w/szip filter, w/threadsafe, in production mode
        Linux/PPC 2.6 (heiwa) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode
        Mac OS X/32 10.6.8 (amazon) in debug mode
        Mac OS X/32 10.6.8 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe,
                in production mode

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/H5A.c b/src/H5A.c
index 0abaa0a..29cfbe8 100644
--- a/src/H5A.c
+++ b/src/H5A.c
@@ -1268,6 +1268,10 @@ H5Aget_type(hid_t attr_id)
     if(NULL == (attr = (H5A_t *)H5I_object_verify(attr_id, H5I_ATTR)))
         HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ARGS, H5E_BADTYPE, FAIL, "not an attribute")
 
+    /* Patch the datatype's "top level" file pointer */
+    if(H5T_patch_file(attr->shared->dt, attr->oloc.file) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ATTR, H5E_CANTINIT, FAIL, "unable to patch datatype's file pointer")
+
     /*
      * Copy the attribute's datatype.  If the type is a named type then
      * reopen the type before returning it to the user. Make the type