Re: Help with bumpless IOC reboot, record linking and initialization concepts

[Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On 9/18/25 07:54, Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk wrote:

Many of our IOCs use one or more “dbpf” commands in their startup script (sometimes after an epicsThreadSleep) ...

Nooooooo!

Finding a bunch of random, rarely commented, dbpf calls in an IOC start script is to me a bad code smell.  The same goes for sleeps, only more so.  Please investigate 'field(PINI, "RUNNING")', or look at other ways to actually synchronize startup.

... it should even be possible to handle disconnections and later reconnections for links to remote IOCs if you want to do that.

imo. any well written driver for an ethernet attached device __needs__ to do this.

Generally, I have found that the more effective way to coordinate connect/disconnect is at the driver level.  Generally with a special device support to drive on-connect processing.