Re: use of H5Gget_objinfo

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• Subject: Re: use of H5Gget_objinfo
• From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:18:36 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Ed,
    Hmm, OK, I'll look into this later today and see if I can get a fix into
CVS for you.

    Quincey

> As suggested in the ref manual I am using H5Gget_objinfo to test for
> the existence of an object in a HDF5 file.
> 
> When I pass NULL as the last argument, I get a segmentation
> fault. When I pass in a valid hunk of memory, it works.
> 
> I believe the docs say that I can pass a NULL here to test for object
> existence without caring about the contents of the H5G_stat_t
> struct...
> 
> Here's the code that works:
> 
>                 H5G_stat_t info;
>                 if (H5Gget_objinfo(grp->hdf_grpid, var->name, 1, &info) >= 0)
>                    replace_existing_var++;
> 
> Sorry, I'm blazing through something here and don't have time to
> isolate this one in it's own program yet...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ed
> 
> -- 
> Ed Hartnett  -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 

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