Re: atomic updates of multiple fields possible?

[mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)]

re...

> Is there a preferred way in EPICS to guarantee that two values are
> placed into two fields of a record atomically?  (i.e. so no monitors
> report a change to one before both are ready?)

If you know in advance the fields that require this treatment, you can
poke the values into the .DOx fields of a seq record (which is in
closed-loop mode, and which has output links to the fields you care
about) and process the seq record.

Tim Mooney