Hi Werner,

Thank you for reporting the bug. It was already fixed in SVN some time ago, but 
we failed to post the fixed version. Will do.

Elena
On Apr 10, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Werner Benger wrote:

> The documentation of H5Lget_info()
> 
>   http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5L.html#Link-GetInfo
> 
>   herr_t H5Lget_info( hid_t link_loc_id, const char *link_name, H5L_info_t 
> *link_buff, hid_t lapl_id  )
> 
> says:
> 
> "In the above struct, type specifies the link class. Valid values include the 
> following:"
>       H5L_LINK_HARD   Hard link
>       H5L_LINK_SOFT           Soft link
>       H5L_LINK_EXTERNAL    External link
>       H5L_LINK_ERROR          Error
> 
> 
> But those symbols don't exist in the HDF5 headers:
> 
> grep LINK_HARD *.h
> H5Dprivate.h:#define H5D_XFER_COLL_CHUNK_LINK_HARD_NAME "coll_chunk_link_hard"
> H5Gpublic.h:#define H5G_LINK_HARD H5L_TYPE_HARD
> 
> It seems they should be "H5G_LINK_HARD" instead of "H5L_LINK_HARD", or rather
> 
>   H5L_TYPE_ERROR
>   H5L_TYPE_HARD
>   H5L_TYPE_SOFT
>   H5L_TYPE_EXTERNAL
> 
> since these enums exist, in contrast to the documented ones.
> 
> (using SVN version of HDF5 1.8)
> 
>       Werner
> 
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