Re: VxWorks file i/o problem

[Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>]

Len Lawrence wrote:
> 
> Sorry folks for introducing a VxWorks query, but after two weeks of
> frustration trying to make the EPICS log server work I have returned
> to simple file i/o (fopen, fprintf, etc) on an mv167 IOC running
> VxWorks 5.2.  

What were the problems that you were having with the log server?
What version of EPICS are you using?

> It would be useful to be able to examine the output on
> the fly but no file ever appears until fclose is called. 
> fflush does
> not do the business.  

This is a feature of the vxWorks FTP file system. The vxWorks
NFS client does not suffer from this limitation.

Will you have multiple IOCs logging to the same file?

Jeff

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