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Author: mulimoen

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
   are now generic over size only: `FixedAscii<N>` and `FixedUnicode<N>`.
 - The version of `hdf5` built in `hdf5-src` has been updated from `1.10.6` to `1.10.7`.
 - The `zlib` dependency is no longer included with `default-features`.
+- `hdf5` no longer calls `H5close` automatically on program exit.
 
 ## 0.7.1
 

src/globals.rs

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ use crate::internal_prelude::*;
 lazy_static! {
     static ref LIBRARY_INIT: () = {
         h5lock!({
+            // Ensure hdf5 does not invalidate handles which might
+            // still be live on other threads on program exit
             ::hdf5_sys::h5::H5dont_atexit();
             ::hdf5_sys::h5::H5open();
         });