Re: change to H5G_stat_t?

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• Subject: Re: change to H5G_stat_t?
• From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:51:55 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Ed,

> Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> >> With the latest version of HDF5 from the cvs repository, I now get
> >> this compile error. What's up?
> >
> >     This is a side effect of moving toward support for "external links".
> > Take a look in the H5Gpublic.h header file for how the H5G_stat_t looks now.
> >
> >     Quincey
> >
> 
> Thanks Quincey!
> 
> I am using the fileno and the objno to uniquely identify datasets when
> looking at dimension scales.
> 
> How will all this link stuff play into that? Can I still count on
> fileno/objno uniquely identifying a dataset?

    Yes, that should continue to be the right way to uniquely identify an
object in an HDF5 file.

    Quincey

• References:
  • Re: change to H5G_stat_t?
    • From: Ed Hartnett