A link in a group connects to one of its members. A member can be an HDF5 objects such as datasets, groups, or named datatypes. A link can be hard (points at a real object), soft (to be dereference when used), external (an object resides outside of the file).
On Nov 3, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Dimos Stamatakis <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Albert, it is more clear now. > > By 'link' you mean a HDF5 link (soft, hard, or UD link), or just a connection > to the child group? So creating a group involves creating a HDF5 link to its > parent? (using the link function callbacks), or you just mean a connection? > > Thanks, > > Dimos > _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5
