On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 02:53, Quincey Koziol wrote: > You can get a copy of the access property list for files and datasets > before you close the objects. However, this won't help if you are > restarting the application (or using another one). Perhaps having > some way to serialize/deserialize property lists would be useful?
I think that could be useful in general. But, in particular, for file access properties, many of those effect the fundamental 'boot' process in opening a file to begin with. So, unless you had a way to, for example, encode them into the boot block or 'user-defined' segment, or a way to somehow read them from a file without having to really 'open' it, I am not sure it would help there. This is related to my experiences writing my own VFD but having difficulty getting HDF5 library to automatically detect and use the desired VFD when re-opening a file. Mark -- Mark C. Miller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ================!!LLNL BUSINESS ONLY!!================ [email protected] urgent: [email protected] T:8-6 (925)-423-5901 M/W/Th:7-12,2-7 (530)-753-8511 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
