Simultaneous write/read access to h5 files #58
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When using h5 files in data acq, it is desired to read the scan file during the scan simultaneously.
For h5 files this feature is introduced by the
swmr
mode. However, this does not seem to be easy, following this Sardana issue: https://gitlab.com/sardana-org/sardana/-/issues/1124A very simple solution also done by PyMCA is to disable file
locking
at all using an environmental variable:h5py/h5py#712 (comment)
This PR introduces this feature when reading Sardana NeXus and PAL FEL h5 files