Re: Problem purging files

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Wed, 05 Mar 1997 17:26:35 +0100

Chris Green wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work, and what I have to do instead?
>
> root [4] TFile *hfile = new TFile("xsec_m030_161.root","UPDATE");
> root [5] .ls
> TFile** xsec_m030_161.root
> TFile* xsec_m030_161.root
> KEY: TTree T;2 A simple ROOT tree
> KEY: TTree T;1 A simple ROOT tree
> KEY: TH2F h1;1 Total Cross-sections at 161 GeV
> KEY: TH2F h2;1 Right-handed Cross-sections at 161 GeV
>
> root [7] hfile->ls();
> TFile** xsec_m030_161.root
> TFile* xsec_m030_161.root
> KEY: TTree T;2 A simple ROOT tree
> KEY: TTree T;1 A simple ROOT tree
> KEY: TH2F h1;1 Total Cross-sections at 161 GeV
> KEY: TH2F h2;1 Right-handed Cross-sections at 161 GeV
>
> root [8] hfile->Purge();
> Deleting key :T at address 1282149 Nbytes=6393
>
> *** Break *** segmentation violation

Thanks for reporting this bug.
It is fixed in version 1.0

Rene Brun