Re: Build failed in Jenkins: epics-base-3.16-linux32-test #13

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>]

On 02/16/2016 11:05 AM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
>
> On 02/15/2016 07:49 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>> On 02/15/2016 08:19 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>>> That "-1" stands out.  So far the only candidate I see is in
>>> dbCaPutLinkCallback() if the target link isn't connected or writable. 
>>> Which would mean that the main thread is racing the dbCa thread to
>>> CA_CONNECT this link.
>> Ok, this is it.  So the obvious fix is to use/abuse caLink::monitor to
>> wait for the link to connect.

So this doesn't work because the links in question are OUT.

I settled on synchronizing against the dbCa workList.  I've added a new
(private) function dbCaSync() for this purpose.

> Or poll dbcaStats(), although there seems to be a dbScanLock()/Unlock()
> pair missing from that particular routine which could use fixing too.

I have an allergy to polling :)