Hi Andrew,
On Sep 26, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Andrew Collette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about external links... if I open a file, and
> resource "/foo" is an external link, when I open it HDF5 goes out and
> opens the file in which it resides. Is there some mechanism to
> automatically close this file? I ask because as the user of "/foo" I
> have no idea whether opening another file is going to be a side effect
> of my accessing it. In practice, this leads to "leaks" of file
> identifiers in my project (h5py).
The file opened via an external link will be automatically closed by
the HDF5 library when the object is closed (as long as nothing else is holding
that file open). Are you seeing some other behavior?
Quincey
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