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@@ -175,6 +175,32 @@ New Features
Library:
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+ - Added External and User-defined links.
+ External links are links from one HDF5 file to another; they
+ require both the name of the file and a path within that file.
+ User-defined links allow users to supply callback functions
+ for link traversals, allowing links to exhibit essentially
+ any behavior.
+ External links are a kind of user-defined link, so their default
+ behavior can be overridden by the user.
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Added H5Oopen and H5Oclose for opening objects of unknown type
+ (as link callback functions do).
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Added H5Oopen_by_addr, H5Oincr_refcount, and H5Odecr_refcount for
+ opening objects by address. Be very careful with these!
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Added H5Fget_intent to get the "intent" of a file (whether it
+ was opened with read-write access or read-only.
+ -JML 2006/8/23
+ - Added Link Access Property Lists. They currently contain two
+ properties, nlinks (H5Pget/set_nlinks) and elink_prefix
+ (H5Pget/set_elink_prefix). nlinks controls how many soft and
+ user-defined traversals are allowed before HDF5 assumes it has
+ found a cycle (previously this defaulted to 16).
+ The elink_prefix is a filesystem path that is prefixed to the
+ names of any external link files opened using this LAPL.
+ -JML 2006/8/23
- Add H5L link APIs. Old APIs (H5Glink, H5Gmove, etc.) are still
supported but deprecated.
New APIs are: