[svn-r13274] Description:

	Relax restriction on the "location ID" for attribute operations to allow
file IDs to be used as the location ID.  If a file ID is used, the attribute
operations will occur on the file's root group.

Tested on:
	FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty)

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/test/tattr.c b/test/tattr.c
index b95c9f0..a444ea5 100644
--- a/test/tattr.c
+++ b/test/tattr.c
@@ -164,9 +164,31 @@ test_attr_basic_write(hid_t fapl)
     sid2 = H5Screate_simple(ATTR1_RANK, dims2, NULL);
     CHECK(sid2, FAIL, "H5Screate_simple");
 
-    /* Try to create an attribute on the file (should fail) */
-    ret=H5Acreate(fid1,ATTR1_NAME,H5T_NATIVE_INT,sid2,H5P_DEFAULT);
-    VERIFY(ret, FAIL, "H5Acreate");
+
+    /* Try to create an attribute on the file (should create an attribute on root group) */
+    attr = H5Acreate(fid1, ATTR1_NAME, H5T_NATIVE_INT, sid2, H5P_DEFAULT);
+    CHECK(attr, FAIL, "H5Acreate");
+
+    /* Close attribute */
+    ret = H5Aclose(attr);
+    CHECK(ret, FAIL, "H5Aclose");
+
+    /* Open the root group */
+    group = H5Gopen(fid1, "/");
+    CHECK(group, FAIL, "H5Gopen");
+
+    /* Open attribute again */
+    attr = H5Aopen_name(group, ATTR1_NAME);
+    CHECK(attr, FAIL, "H5Aopen_name");
+
+    /* Close attribute */
+    ret = H5Aclose(attr);
+    CHECK(ret, FAIL, "H5Aclose");
+
+    /* Close root group */
+    ret = H5Gclose(group);
+    CHECK(ret, FAIL, "H5Gclose");
+
 
     /* Create an attribute for the dataset */
     attr=H5Acreate(dataset,ATTR1_NAME,H5T_NATIVE_INT,sid2,H5P_DEFAULT);
@@ -384,7 +406,8 @@ test_attr_basic_read(hid_t fapl)
     CHECK(ret, FAIL, "H5Dclose");
 
     /* Open the group */
-    group=H5Gopen(fid1,GROUP1_NAME);
+    group = H5Gopen(fid1,GROUP1_NAME);
+    CHECK(group, FAIL, "H5Gopen");
 
     /* Verify the correct number of attributes */
     ret=H5Aget_num_attrs(group);