Hello, At least some versions of HDFView worked so that they opened .h5 data files in read-write mode and, when closing, re-wrote the headers(?) of the data file even though the user thought that no changes were needed. That could cause data loss if the format of the datafile was not interpreted correctly in the first place.
My question is: How does the read-write mode behave, nowadays, in terms of re-writing things or leaving them intact? When closing a file opened in read-write mode, does the HDF5 library write something only when there are changes or does it always re-write headers? Thanks and regards, Vesa Paatero
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