caRepeater ...

[jpq@radish.dnd.aps.anl.gov (John Quintana)]

I apologize if this is a trivial question, but I can't seem to find
the answer.  I am trying to bundle up the R3.12.0Beta13 base port
to Linux so other people can hack/use it.  I've tested the port on
my crate with a simple soft analog input record.  Things seem to work
with the exception of the starting of caRepeater.  Before I delve into
the code, I was wondering if this happens on other platforms or
perhaps I am just doing something wrong.

1) startCArepeater does nothing.  This is where I am confused.
   startCArepeater just calls ca_task_initialize which returns
   without doing anything if ca_static is NULL.  I can't seem to
   find where it is initialized since it is defined as
   a pointer.  startCArepeater also doesn't give any error messages.

2) Given the above, the clients don't seem to start caRepeater; however,
   if I start it by hand (e.g.    caRepeater &    ), then ca_test
   can talk to my crate.

I'm sure that I'm just missing something fundamental.

- John

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