Mustafa Mohamad

`h5info` as in the matlab function https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/h5info.html ?

Does `HDF5.show_tree` satisfy your needs? From `test/plain.jl` ``` # Make an interesting file tree hfile = h5open(fn, "w") # file level hfile["version"] = 1.0 attributes(hfile)["creator"] = "HDF5.jl" # group level...

Good point, we should definitely advertise this more and document it. At the same time this is the default method for `show` so it should show up transparently.

I don't think this makes sense How are we supposed to know the string size, unless we make it variable?

I guess we could make `datatype(String)` use ` H5T_VARIABLE`

@jmert any thoughts on my proposal here?

Thanks for the PR! At a quick glance this looks like a workaround in HDF5 and MPI where it feels like it should be handled by the Darshan wrapper (potentially...

There are several real failures in CI to take a look at.

The discussion on discourse is indeed very insightful. Given the feedback in the thread it does sound like the course of action is to incorporate the necessary changes in Base...

Sorry I think I missed this. Can you repost the issue here? How does JLD relate to the problem?