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-rw-r--r--hl/src/H5DS.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hl/src/H5DS.c b/hl/src/H5DS.c
index e9ea9cf..cb3a1ce 100644
--- a/hl/src/H5DS.c
+++ b/hl/src/H5DS.c
@@ -1779,6 +1779,8 @@ out:
* Comments:
*
* Modifications:
+* The size of the name returned should not include the NULL termination
+* in its value so as to be consistent with other HDF5 APIs.
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -1875,7 +1877,7 @@ ssize_t H5DSget_scale_name(hid_t did,
buf=NULL;
}
- return (ssize_t) nbytes;
+ return (ssize_t) MAX(0,nbytes-1);
/* error zone */
out: