Re: Strange change in behavior from 7.0.1 to 7.0.2

[Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk <core-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

On 1/25/19 2:24 PM, Johnson, Andrew N. wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I have not automated this test, so please go ahead. I'm still thinking
> about our different solutions, but this database can obviously become a
> test case we both agree on.

Test case w/ TODO markers

https://github.com/mdavidsaver/epics-base/commit/957a2714bb86838f0dedc476f92834f0ed963785

First pass at a fix.  Needs some more work.  It may be possible
to skip the change in dbProcess() and move all the new work to processTarget().
This would avoid some duplication, and calling epicsThreadGetIdSelf() when processing
records w/o DB links.

https://github.com/mdavidsaver/epics-base/commit/925ae9362c7d7e00d97abb2ac0d684bd519d0a83

> I approved your dbNotify fixes earlier BTW, in case you didn't get that
> email from Launchpad.

Ha, no I didn't.  I'll have to try a different gmail filter...


> - Andrew
> 
> On 1/25/19 12:46 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>> Andrew, Have you built a test case around this yet?  If not, I will.
>>
>> On 1/24/19 9:56 AM, Johnson, Andrew N. via Core-talk wrote:
>>> I can simplify your database to this using base-only record types:
>>>> record(ao,"_pos") {
>>>>     field(OUT,"_rel.A PP")
>>>>     field(TPRO, 1)
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> record(calc,"_rel") {
>>>>     field(FLNK,"_lim")
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> record(calc,"_lim") {
>>>>     field(INPA,"_pos PP")
>>>>     field(INPB,"_pos.DRVL PP")
>>>>     field(INPC,"_pos.DRVH PP")
>>>> }
>