Re: TSEL question

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@gmx.de>]

On 13.09.2013 18:29, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
>
> On 09/13/2013 09:52 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:
> > On 13.09.2013 16:47, Ralph Lange wrote:
> > > Maybe using a new magic number for TSE would be a cleaner solution:
> > > "-3" = use timestamp of record that TSEL points to.
> > > That would make things a lot more obvious and autoSaveRestore would
> > > just work.
> >
> > Dear fellow core-talkers,
> >
> > Would that work? Or am I missing something?
>
> I'm not sure how that could work.
>
> Currently the pvlOptTSELisTime bit is set by recGblTSELwasModified() 
> being called after the link is initialized either from iocInit.c's 
> doResolveLinks() or from dbAccess.c's dbPutFieldLink().  At runtime if 
> recGblGetTimeStamp() sees the bit set it does not read TSE from TSEL 
> but just reads the timestamp through it instead.

I was thinking about using TSE=-3 instead of the pvlOptTSELisTime bit, 
explicitly showing the mechanism used to fetch the stamp.

But your fix is simpler and practically does the same. Excellent!

Thanks a lot,
~Ralph