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* [svn-r26878] Fix errors in unlimited selection serialize/deserializeNeil Fortner2015-04-211-1/+1
| | | | | | Other minor fixes Tested: jam
* [svn-r26828] Implement support for unlimited selections (not supported by ↵Neil Fortner2015-04-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | VDS code yet). Add tests for unlimited selections. Various other minor changes. Tested: ummon
* [svn-r26777] - Fix usage of the internal AC global dxplsMohamad Chaarawi2015-04-101-2/+2
| | | | | | - allocate sieve buffer with calloc instead of malloc tested with h5committest
* [svn-r26373] Fix for HDFFV-7959:Scot Breitenfeld2015-03-051-2/+11
| | | | | | H5Rdereference should check for default (HADDR_UNDEF) value and not continue processing and return so that ret value can be checked and handled properly Tested: jam (gnu)
* [svn-r26302] Description:Quincey Koziol2015-02-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Revise dataspace encode/decode routines to make them work better with future virtual dataset feature. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.10.2 (amazon) w/serial (h5committest forthcoming)
* [svn-r25496] Description:Quincey Koziol2014-07-301-9/+14
| | | | | | | | | Merge 64-bit ID changes from branch to trunk. (Plus a few minor cleanups that aren't on the branch) Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.9.4 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN (h5committested on branch already for a week)
* [svn-r24998] Description:Quincey Koziol2014-04-091-0/+3
| | | | | | | | Check in Neil's changes for correctly handling case where library is reinitialized through a deprecated routine. Tested on: Linux 2.4.x/32 (jam)
* [svn-r24681] Description:Scot Breitenfeld2014-02-041-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | Fix for HDF5/HDFFV-8620 H5Rget_name with NULL name parameter fails. The name parameter now excepts NULL, in which case the length of then name is returned. Tested: jam (intel and gnu)
* [svn-r24255] Description:Quincey Koziol2013-10-041-1/+0
| | | | | | | | Switch H5I internal data structure from using hash table to skip lists. Tested on: Mac OSX 10.8.4 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN FreeBSD, Linux, etc. forthcoming
* [svn-r23695] Description:Quincey Koziol2013-05-111-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up warnings in H5Tconv.c (down to _only_ 9000 lines of output now!) Merge changes from Coverity branch back to trunk: r20684: Fix for coverity bug #1721 which was due to the fix for coverity bug #943. r20685: Use HDstrncpy. --gh r20761: Purpose: Fix valgrind issues Description: Free image_data and data as appropriate in test_image. r20762: Purpose: Fix coverity issue 600 Description: Add check for return value of H5O_close in H5Ocopy. Also cleaned up various warnings. r20763: Purpose: Fix valgrind issues with h5stat Description: Modified h5stat to free "iter" before exit, and free "hand" before exit if parse_command_line exits directly. r20764: fixed coverity issues: 69, 327, 614, 684, 685, 696, 697, 1681, 967, 826, 660, 80 r20765: Fixed coverity bug 668 Pulled x * y * z multiply out of malloc operand into a separate n_elements variable to quiet integer overflow warning. No actual integer overflow tests are performed since it's just a test program but I did add a check that n_elements is >= 1. I also changed an error condition from doing its own close and returning -1 to "goto out;" like the rest of the program. r20766: Fixed coverity bug 667 Pulled x * y * z multiply out of malloc operand into a separate n_elements variable to quiet integer overflow warning. No actual integer overflow tests are performed since it's just a test program. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.8.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN (h5committest upcoming)
* [svn-r22750] Removed check-in r22746 because it causes an error in objcopy ↵Scot Breitenfeld2012-09-101-4/+0
| | | | | | on Linew 64 byte. Will check-in again after the issue is resolved.
* [svn-r22746] Description:Scot Breitenfeld2012-09-091-0/+4
| | | | | | | | Fix for HDFFV-7959 H5Rdereference should check for default (HADDR_UNDEF) value and not continue processing and return so that ret value can be checked and handled properly. Added fix and test, reviewed: Tested: jam (gnu, intel)
* [svn-r22608] Description:Quincey Koziol2012-07-261-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Switch propert list/class iteration from internal to external form of iteration, cleaning up and simplifying the code a bit. Bring other general improvements from plist_encode_decode branch back to trunk. Clean up many warnings. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.7.4 (amazon) w/gcc 4.7, debug and C++ & FORTRAN (too minor to require h5committest)
* [svn-r22582] Description:Quincey Koziol2012-07-161-5/+46
| | | | | | | | | Refactor ID class registration to be more like how other "class"s in the library are registered, and clean up compiler warnings. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.7.4 (amazon) w/debug (Too minor to require h5comittest)
* [svn-r22371] Fix for HDFFV-7697Dana Robinson2012-05-151-1/+1
| | | | | | Minor change to error message text in H5R.c. Minor change: tested on jam
* [svn-r21919] Description:Quincey Koziol2012-02-091-15/+15
| | | | | | | | Refactor function name macros and simplify the FUNC_ENTER macros, to clear away the cruft and prepare for further cleanups. Tested on: Mac OSX/64 10.7.3 (amazon) w/debug, production & parallel
* [svn-r21205] Issue 2763 - adding OAPL_ID as a new parameter to ↵Raymond Lu2011-08-101-0/+3
| | | | | | | | H5Rdereference. I added a check of OAPL_ID against -1 because CMAKE on 64-bit Windows slipped through the function call in the trefer.c test. Tested on jam and CMAKE on 64-bit Windows.
* [svn-r21149] Snapshot version 1.9 release 85HDF Tester2011-07-241-0/+1
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* [svn-r21124] Issue 2763 - adding OAPL_ID as a new parameter to ↵Raymond Lu2011-07-191-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | H5Rdereference. A followup commit for r21117. I made 2 changes: 1. Quincey changed H5P_DATASET_ACCESS_DEFAULT to H5P_DEFAULT for the tests that call H5Rdereference. Inside H5R_dereference, I assigned H5P_DATASET_ACCESS_DEFAULT to OAPL_ID if it is H5P_DEFAULT. 2. I added the test for invalid OAPL_ID in trefer.c. Tested on jam, koala, heiwa.
* [svn-r21117] Issue 2763 - I added a new parameter of object access property ↵Raymond Lu2011-07-181-14/+18
| | | | | | list to the function H5Rdereference. It's called H5Rdereference2 now. H5Rdereference function has been deprecated to H5Rdereference1. I also added some test cases in trefer.c. Tested on jam, heiwa, and koala.
* [svn-r19398] Descriptino:Quincey Koziol2010-09-161-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up the internal usage H5I_dec_ref() to eliminate the sequence of flags that has been creeping in. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) 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 (amani) 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 Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.4 (amazon) in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.4 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.4 (amazon) w/parallel, in debug mode
* [svn-r19363] When mandatory filter failed to write data chunks, the datasetRaymond Lu2010-09-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | couldn't close (bug 1260). The fix releases all resources and closes the dataset but returns a failure. Tested with h5committest - jam, heiwa, amani.
* [svn-r18577] Fix for Bug 1741:Allen Byrne2010-04-151-1/+3
| | | | | | | | H5Rcreate given a region reference with a space_id of -1 throws assert and crashes on Windows machines. Add check for case and return error. Tested: Windows amd local linux
* [svn-r18571] Description:Quincey Koziol2010-04-151-13/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring r18542 from metadata journaling "merging" branch to trunk: Bring new object header pin/unpin & protect/unprotect routines and split-out object header chunk proxy changes from metadata_journaling branch to "merging" branch, along with some other minor tweaks to clean up compiler warnings, etc. Also: clean up chunk protect/unprotect calls when allocating or freeing space in a chunk, optimize metadata accumulator code to avoid some re-reading of information from the file, refactor H5O_pin/H5O_unpin from way they are done on the merging branch back to way they were previously done on trunk, other minor code cleanups, etc. Tested on FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (amani) 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, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.6.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in production mode
* [svn-r18460] Description:Quincey Koziol2010-03-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fold metadata journaling changes into the trunk: mostly tweaky small stuff, also removed the H5F_t* field from the H5G_entry_t struct. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) 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 (amani) 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, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
* [svn-r18357] Description:Quincey Koziol2010-03-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring r18356 from metadata journaling merge branch to trunk: Converge metadata journaling branch with trunk with a bunch of v1 B-tree changes: - Remove H5ACprivate.h header from H5Bprivate.h header - Revise v1 B-tree client callbacks - Get rid of H5B_serialize() by bringing it into H5B_flush() Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.3 (liberty) 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 (amani) 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, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (abe) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
* [svn-r16062] Purpose: Allow per-dataset rdcc configurationNeil Fortner2008-11-121-1/+2
| | | | | | | | Description: Adds 3 new public functions: H5Pset_chunk_cache, H5Pget_chunk_cache, and H5Dget_access_list. First implementation of dataset access properties. See RFC_chunk_cache_functions for details. Tested: kagiso, linew, smirom (h5committest)
* [svn-r15609] Description:Quincey Koziol2008-09-101-11/+11
| | | | | | | | Omnibus compiler warning cleanup & some reformatting also. Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.5.4 (amazon) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r15485] Purpose: Allow library to shut down properly when objects have ↵Neil Fortner2008-08-191-10/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | reference count > 1. Description: Added a new field 'app_count' to H5I_id_info_t struct, to track the reference count on an id due to the application. the old 'count' field tracks the total. Generally any id visible to the application gets placed in app_count. Added app_ref boolean parameter to H5I_inc_ref, H5I_dec_ref, H5I_register, H5I_clear_type, and a few other functions, to specify whether the operation(s) being performed on the id(s) are due to the application (TRUE) or not (FALSE). Test added for this case. Tested: kagiso, smirom, linew (h5committest)
* [svn-r14284] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-11-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add H5Lvisit_by_name() API routine to library. Eliminated all (five!) other group traversal routines and changed them all to use the new API routine. Cleaned up output of h5ls & h5stat: - Issue error when requesting recursive traversal of a file with the "group info" flag, but no group given - Print info about root group in all(?) appropriate situations - Don't print "verbose" information about root group until the root group is in the list of objects to display (mostly because h5ls & h5stat had a different twist on traversing the groups in a file that the other utilities) Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode Linux/64-ia64 2.4 (tg-login3) w/parallel, w/FORTRAN, in production mode
* [svn-r14224] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-10-301-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change H5Literate -> H5Literate_by_name and add simpler form of H5Literate, to bring this routine into alignment with the other new API routines. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode
* [svn-r14211] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-10-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove --enable-hdfv1_6 configure flag, now that all dependencies on it have been removed and new --with-default-api-version=[v16|v18] and --disable-deprecated-symbols flags have taken its place. Update types in bin/trace so that bin/reconfigure runs cleanly. Run bin/reconfigure to regenerate configure script, along with other associated files, etc. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) in debug mode FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) w/PGI compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (smirom) w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (cobalt) w/Intel compilers, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon) in debug mode
* [svn-r14148] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-09-141-47/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add H5Rget_obj_type() to the API versioning and switch internal routines to use H5Rget_obj_type2() Misc. other code cleanups, etc. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) FreeBSD/64 6.2 (liberty) Linux/32 2.6 (kagiso) Linux/64 2.6 (smirom) AIX/32 5.3 (copper) Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) Mac OS X/32 10.4.10 (amazon)
* [svn-r13798] Description:Quincey Koziol2007-05-231-8/+4
| | | | | | | Clean up compiler warnings Tested on: Mac OS X/32 10.4.9 (amazon)
* [svn-r13475] There's a configure issue linking szip's shared libraries when ↵Mike McGreevy2007-03-081-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | running on kagiso. The static szip libraries are working as intended, but when shared szip libraries are present and intended for use they cannot be opened. A check has been implemented to test if shared szip libraries are functional on current platform. If they are not, and the user is trying to use them, szip is now disbaled and the user is informed. This issue occurs on kagiso, and the resolution was tested on kagiso.
* [svn-r13253] Updated all C and C++ style source code files with the THG ↵Albert Cheng2007-02-071-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | copyright notice. Tested platform: Kagiso only since it is only a comment block change. If it works in one machine, it should work in all, I hope. Still need to check the parallel build on copper.
* [svn-r13068] Ran bin/reconfigure. Some of the scripts have been changed or ↵James Laird2006-12-181-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | haven't been run in a while, so many of the source files were updated with tracing macros, etc. No code changes by me. Tested on kagiso and smirom.
* [svn-r12963] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-11-211-8/+15
| | | | | | | | | | Refactor internal code that retrieves the object's type to use the new H5O_type_t (which only definitions for object types, instead of links as well) instead of the older H5G_obj_t (which included links, etc.) Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r12942] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-11-181-8/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix H5Rget_name() routine with dataset region references and merge tests into getname test. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir) Linux/32 2.4 (heping) Linux/64 2.4 (mir) AIX/32 5.? (copper)
* [svn-r12902] Checkin of Shared Object Header Message work.James Laird2006-11-131-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | This feature is still in progress; Shared Object Header Messages are not complete as a feature and are not thoroughly tested. There are still "TODO" comments in the code (comments with the word "JAMES" in them, so as not to be confused with other TODO comments). Hopefully this checkin will reduce the liklihood of conflicts as I finish implementing this feature. All current tests pass on juniper, copper (parallel), heping, kagiso, and mir.
* [svn-r12893] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-11-111-3/+4
| | | | | | | | Fix error with retrieving names of object references on big-endian platforms. Tested on: AIX/32 5.? (copper)
* [svn-r12892] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-11-111-1/+151
| | | | | | | | | Add H5Rget_name routine and tests... Tested on: FreeBSD/32 4.11 (sleipnir) Linux/32 2.4 (heping) Linux/64 2.4 (mir)
* [svn-r12706] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-10-021-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | Clean up some of the warnings on 64-bit Linux... Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2) Too minor to require h5committest
* [svn-r12680] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-09-251-48/+41
| | | | | | | | | Review, revise & checkin in Peter's latest round of object copy changes, which add basic support for datasets & attributes with reference datatypes. Tested on: Linux/32 2.6 (chicago) Linux/64 2.6 (chicago2)
* [svn-r12585] Description:Quincey Koziol2006-08-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | Correct parameter flipped in memset call (Thanks Peter!) Tested on: Very minor, just eyeballed.
* [svn-r12528] Added User-Defined links to the library.James Laird2006-08-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Users can create external links using H5L_create_external(). These links point to an object in another HDF5 file. Users can alter the behavior of external links or create new kinds of links by registering callbacks using the H5L interface. Added tests, tools support, etc. Also a number of other, minor changes have been made (some restructuring of the H5L interface, for instance). Additional documentation and examples are forthcoming.
* [svn-r12254] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2006-04-141-5/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anti-feature Description: Revert changes to H5G_stat_t struct, to make it compatible with the 1.6.x branch again. The information that was added to the H5G_stat_t struct will be reported through other API routines. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) w/C++ Linux 2.4/64 (mir) w/C++ & Fortran Solaris 2.9 (shanti)
* [svn-r11899] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2006-01-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix & new feature Description: Support variable-length datatypes in compact data storage and chunked data storage, along with attributes. Bug fix on the H5T_vlen_set_loc to allow for changing the file on a variable-length datatype on disk. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) Linux 2.4 Can't h5committest right now, due to missing cache files.
* [svn-r11712] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-11-151-224/+228
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New feature Description: Check in baseline for compact group revisions, which radically revises the source code for managing groups and object headers. WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! This initiates the "unstable" phase of the 1.7.x branch, leading up to the 1.8.0 release. Please test this code, but do _NOT_ keep files created with it - the format will change again before the release and you will not be able to read your old files!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! Solution: There's too many changes to really describe them all, but some of them include: - Stop abusing the H5G_entry_t structure and split it into two separate structures for non-symbol table node use within the library: H5O_loc_t for object locations in a file and H5G_name_t to store the path to an opened object. H5G_entry_t is now only used for storing symbol table entries on disk. - Retire H5G_namei() in favor of a more general mechanism for traversing group paths and issuing callbacks on objects located. This gets us out of the business of hacking H5G_namei() for new features, generally. - Revised H5O* routines to take a H5O_loc_t instead of H5G_entry_t - Lots more... Platforms tested: h5committested and maybe another dozen configurations.... :-)
* [svn-r11304] Purpose:Quincey Koziol2005-08-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Code cleanup (sorta) Description: Adjust H5G_stat_t to prepare for eventual "external link" information. This also puts the information for regular objects and soft links into more obviously separate places. Platforms tested: FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir) Linux 2.4