Re: New/improved iocsh debug utility functions (dbli)

[Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>]

I could fix the problem that infos may appear on the alias dbRecordNode, 
but to allow 'caget alias.info' I needed dbRecordNode.aliasedRecnode 
which Michael introduced in 3.16(?). Thus it would make sense to 
implement CA to info fields in 3.16+ only, right? For my tests, I have 
simple back-ported aliasedRecnode to 3.14.12.7.

Dirk

On 02.03.2018 11:31, Dirk Zimoch wrote:
> One thing is a bit confusing at them moment:
> When a record has infos and aliases, the infos are bound to the previous 
> alias, not to the original record:
>
> record (ai, "dz:ai")
> {
>   alias("alias1")
>   info(my_info_field, "Hello World")
>   alias("alias2")
> }
> alias("dz:ai","alias3")
>
> epics> dbla
> alias1 --> dz:ai
> alias2 --> dz:ai
> alias3 --> dz:ai
>
> epics> dbli
> alias1.my_info_field "Hello World"
>
> $ caget dz:ai.my_info_field
> Channel connect timed out: 'dz:ai.my_info_field' not found.
>
> $ /usr/local/epics/base/bin/SL6-x86_64/caget alias1.my_info_field
> alias1.my_info_field           Hello World
>
> $ /usr/local/epics/base/bin/SL6-x86_64/caget alias2.my_info_field
> Channel connect timed out: 'alias2.my_info_field' not found.
>
> $ /usr/local/epics/base/bin/SL6-x86_64/caget alias3.my_info_field
> Channel connect timed out: 'alias3.my_info_field' not found.
>
> Need to fix that...