Re: iocStats reboot question

["Shen, Guobao" <shen@frib.msu.edu>]

Hi Geyang,
The reboot function used in iocStats has been redefined as for example "#define reboot(x) epicsExit(0)" on any posix system.
You can find full definition in file for example devIocStats/os/posix/devIocStatsOSD.h
Therefore, the reboot is a alias name of epicsExit() instead of not a linux OS reboot, and does accept parameter.

I hope this is your question.

Guobao

On 4/17/15 9:20 AM, Silver wrote:

hi, Ralph:

Thanks a lot for your reply. 

maybe you misunderstand my question for my poor english. I think reboot function should restart the whole machine, but why the reboot function here just kill the IOC process?

In the man help about reboot function, I didn't see any parameters for just rebooting the process?

 

  

 

 

 

 

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Geyang 2015-04-17

 

 

 

From: Ralph Lange

Date: 2015-04-17 16:44

To: EPICS Tech-Talk

Subject: Re: iocStats reboot question

Hi Geyang,

Under Linux (and the other host-type OSs), an IOC is a single multi-threaded process.
So, naturally, "rebooting" an IOC means restarting the IOC process, which is usually done by shutting down or killing the current process and letting the wrapper (e.g. procServ) handle the restart.

Very often, many Linux IOCs are run on a single host: 20-30 are quite common, I have seen up >300 IOCs on a server-class Solaris machine.
I am sure you understand that allowing to reboot the server from any of these IOCs would be a bad idea.

Also, rebooting a server usually needs root access. IOCs should not be run as root.

Cheers,
~Ralph

On 17/04/2015 09:36, Silver wrote:

hi, 

in IOC Status and Control (devIocStats), it has an reboot function in subroutine record, that is ,in devIocStatsSub.c file, it calls reboot function of linux.

I am wandering why this call just kill the ioc process instead of rebooting the machine? as in manual of reboot function (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/reboot.2.html)

Thanks a lot for your help.

  

 

 

 

 

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Best wishes

Geyang 2015-04-17