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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index d2fb464..78b03b1 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ Library Configuration ------------- + * Added "--with-dmalloc" flag, to easily enable support for the 'dmalloc' + debugging malloc implementation. -QAK, 2002/07/15 * Can use just enable-threadsafe if the C compiler has builtin pthreads support. * Require HDF (a.k.a. hdf4) software that consists of a newer version @@ -193,6 +195,14 @@ Documentation New Features ============ + * Added MPI-posix VFL driver. This VFL driver uses MPI functions to + coordinate actions, but performs I/O directly with POSIX sec(2) + (i.e. open/close/read/write/etc.) calls. This driver should _NOT_ + be used to access files that are not on a parallel filesystem. + The following API functions were added: + herr_t H5Pset_fapl_mpiposix(hid_t fapl_id, MPI_Comm comm); + herr_t H5Pget_fapl_mpiposix(hid_t fapl_id, MPI_Comm *comm/*out*/); + -QAK, 2002/07/15 * Added environment variable flag to control whether creating MPI derived typed is preferred or not. This can affect performance, depending on which way the MPI-I/O library is optimized for. The default is set to |