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Subject: Re: use VxWorks task to load databases
From: Johnny Tang <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 95 14:12:16 EDT
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  Have you thought about using a VxWorks task to load databases
to ioc ? So that only one startup file is needed for all the iocs.
Also it will load what ever in the specified production tree so that
it will not be impacted by changes of products in the production
tree.  It can be called "Dynamic Shared Directory Loading".

  Say, I have a production tree like this:

  <prod> ---- <ioc1> --- <app1> --- app1db1.database 
           |          |             app1db2.database
           |          |             app1.o
           |          |- <app2> --- app2db1.database 
           |                        app2db2.database
           |                        app2.o
           |              . . .
           |
           |- <ioc2> --- <app1> --- app1db1.database 
                      |             app1db2.database
                      |             app1.o
                      |- <app3> --- app3db1.database 
                                    app3db2.database
                                    app3.o
                          . . .
         . . . . . .

  And a startup like this:

  # startup file for all the iocs 
  ld  < epics/iocCore
  ld  < epics/drvSup
  ld  < epics/recSup
  ld  < epics/devSup
  ld  < epics/seq
  ld  < appDbLoadTask.o
  sp appDbLdTask



  The appDbLoadTask will do the following:

  1. Read from Env Variable get the <prod> dir into $ProdDir
  2. Get Ioc name and set to $CurrentIOCName
  3. cd $(ProdDir)/$(CurrentIOCName)
  4. For every <app> do
         load all the *.database files and *.o file
     Note: Wildcard may be configurable
  5. do iocInit "resource.def"
  6. do <app> record initial valus settings (dbpf)
  7. taskdelete(taskIdSelf())

  Note: one suggestion is step 4,5,6 can be implemented
  as shell callable subroutine.

  Let me know how do you think about this.

  Regards,

  Johnny Tang
  CEBAF

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