Last modified: 31 May 2016

Name: H5Drefresh

Signature:
herr_t H5Drefresh(hid_t dataset_id)

Purpose:
Refreshes all buffers associated with a dataset.

Description:
H5Drefresh causes all buffers associated with a dataset to be cleared and immediately re-loaded with updated contents from disk.

This function essentially closes the dataset, evicts all metadata associated with it from the cache, and then re-opens the dataset. The reopened dataset is automatically re-registered with the same identifier.

Parameters:

Returns:
Returns a non-negative value if successful; otherwise returns a negative value.

Fortran Interface:
None

See Also:



History:
Release     Change
1.10.0 C function introduced with this release.