Edward Hartnett

Because you are the first to suggest it! ;-) I did not even know it existed. Are you suggesting we take whatever value of H5_DEFAULT_PLUGINDIR is in h5pubconf.h and install...

Could this be a file permission problem? Do you have permission to create the file, or is there already a file of that name that you are attempting to overwrite...

I'm sorry but I suspect this is connected to some long-standing NC_STRING. Can you instead use fixed length strings? Then turn on nc_def_var_deflate() for the variable, and it will compress...

Using fixed length NC_CHAR works well and is simple to code. ;-)

I would suggest you try on standard unix box with valgrind, and with address sanitizer.

Can we fix the code instead of adding a flag? What is the exact code issue that is causing the problem, do we know?

Once your changes in #2047 are merged, this should improve a lot...

IIRC rec_match_dimscales should be called only when our own hidden attribute metadata does not know the dimids. In that case, rec_match_dimscales() does a very slow recursive search through the file...

The NetCDF Users Guide is no longer with the netcdf-c library, but has it's own repo on Unidata's GitHub, called "NetCDF".

OK, the problem is in tst_nccopy4.sh, which contains this: ``` if test -f tst_group_data${ext} ; then ${execdir}/tst_group_data ; fi if test -f tst_enum_data${ext} ; then ${execdir}/tst_enum_data ; fi if test...