Re: asyn file interface

[Maren Purves <m.purves@jach.hawaii.edu>]

Wondering why anyway.
Can't you just NFS mount the disk and write to it?
From e.g. a genSub?

Or if you're talking about configurations, pvLoad?

Maren

Mark Rivers wrote:
> I don't know of a file interface.
>
> If I understand what you want to do, then I think you want to write an
> asyn port driver that implements some set of asyn interfaces (asynOctet,
> asynInt32, etc.) but that does I/O to files rather than to hardware
> directly?
>
> Mark
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov 
> > [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Mayssat
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:51 PM
> > To: epics
> > Subject: asyn file interface
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I would like asyn to read from or write to data files.
> > For a real device, those files could be ftp transferred (in and out).
> > For a soft device, those files could be used as simulators of a real
> > device.
> >
> > Is there an commonly used asyn file interface?
> > If not, has anyone written such an interface?
> > Any comments?