Tim Holy

Yep, we use that: https://github.com/timholy/HDF5.jl/blob/master/src/blosc_filter.jl

Better than a link, please just edit the README to note that `deflate` is more portable. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#improving-documentation

I agree with you that it seems most likely that this is a problem in base julia. What's funny about that code is that I wrote it without having a...

Nice work! Two thoughts: - Your endianness point is a good one. How about writing an array of `Uint32` with value `0x01020304` and seeing what comes back? - I wonder...

Since the `0x01020304` is stored in the last 4 bytes of the file, what happens if you ignore the fact that these are HDF5 files and just try ``` s...

`prop` is basically an opaque identifier; it should only be manipulated through the [H5P API].(http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5P.html), which as you can see is not tiny :smile:. I don't know enough about the...

Wait, my suggestion was borked, and had one too many `Ptr`s in it.

Thanks for the confirmation that `offset` is OK. http://hdf-forum.184993.n3.nabble.com/getting-back-the-full-with-path-filename-from-a-hid-t-td914238.html is interesting, but it suggests that this should work.

Actually, can you comment out the `try`, `finally`, `end`? Errors within that block may be being masked. We should probably also initialize `fd = convert(Cint, -1)` (EDIT: rather than using...

The initialization idea was just simply to check for errors, but (duh) `try/finally` allows errors to happen (I was temporarily thinking of `catch`), so my suggestion was dumb anyway. I...