Re: EPICS applications under Solaris 2.3

[hill@luke.atdiv.lanl.gov (Jeff Hill)]

> 
> Please verify that a "startCArepeater" task is running locally on any
> workstation which does Channel Access.  I recall Jeff was doing something
> to make this more automatic, but for those folks who have "zombie processes
> and mapped windows" please use the brute-force startCArepeater mechanism.
> 

The code as written for 3.12 will:

1) If the repeater daemon is running do nothing 
2) failing (1) then an exec() on the repeater binary is attempted
3) failing (2) then a fork() is executed to start the repeater
	

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