Re: Build failed in Jenkins: epics-base-3.16-linux32-test #30

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

On 03/09/2016 01:43 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> I think the issue is that the test is not waiting for the initial
> monitor update to be delivered.  It later does wait for an update to be
> delivered, which is assumed to be the result of a dbPutField().

OK; since this is just for test purposes, can't you set the PV it's
monitoring to a known value and just poll until you see that value (or
eventually timeout and abort). I know you hate polling, but this is only
a test program so it doesn't need high performance.

- Andrew

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