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Re: [netcdfgroup] Accessing a NetCDF and HDF5 file at the same time corrupts the HDF file

  • To: Ed Hartnett <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Accessing a NetCDF and HDF5 file at the same time corrupts the HDF file
  • From: Rob Latham <robl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:08:26 -0500
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:16:31AM -0600, Ed Hartnett wrote:
> This problem was caused by an inadvisable call to H5close() inside the
> netCDF library. Of course it was very silly of me to do this - how can
> the netCDF library know if you are still using the HDF5 library? 
> 
> The call to H5close() was removed, and thus the problem will not occur
> for you.

I wonder if you added this close some time after this discussion?

http://mailman.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdf-hdf/2007/msg00107.html

and if so, does removing this call have implications for parallel I/O ?

==rob

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA