Hello all, Regarding external links, should one be able to cascade or recurse down multiple external links? In HDFview-2.7 I can't see the contents of an externally linked group more than 1 level deep. Should I expect similar behaviour in a compiled Fortran code?
For example, I have a set of files named 1.h5 to 9.h5 each containing multiple groups and data sets. Files 1.h5 to 8.h5 also contain an external link, '/next' which, as you can see, lives at the top (root) level of each data file. This soft link then points to the root group of the next hdf5 file. For example, 1.h5/next --> 2.h5/, 2.h5/next --> 3.h5/, etc. In HDFview-2.7 if I were to open 1.h5/next I can see the entire contents and meta data of 2.h5/, but 1.h5/next/next won't open, although it appears I can see the correct meta data. Is this the desired behaviour of HDFview or a bug? Can I expect to be able to derefrence/address a chain of multiple external links in a compiled program using the HDF5 API? Thanks, Izaak Beekman =================================== (301)244-9367 Princeton University Doctoral Candidate Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering [email protected] UMD-CP Visiting Graduate Student Aerospace Engineering [email protected] [email protected]
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