[MOAB-dev] Exchanging tags with no name

[Tim Tautges]

Tags don't have to have names.  I wasn't aware that exchange_tags didn't work for nameless tags.  Can you send the test 
program you wrote?

- tim

On 01/17/2013 04:10 PM, Milad Fatenejad wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I just tried calling exchange_tags on a tag with no name (when I created the tag I specified NULL as the first argument
> to tag_get_handle) and found that the tag exchange did not seem to work. After a lot of experimentation, I found that
> whether or not the tag had a name was the factor that determined whether the shared, not-owned entities successfully
> updated...
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Does exchange_tags require that the tag have a name specified?
> 2. Am I allowed to pass NULL as the name for tag_get_handle? Or must tags have names?
>
> Thank You
> Milad
>

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