Re: CA online: A call to "assert (semTake ... (fwd)

[zhang hao <zhangh@alpha02.ihep.ac.cn>]

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:32:48 -0600
From: Marty Kraimer <mrk@aps.anl.gov>
To: Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>
Cc: Coles Sibley <sibley@mit.edu>, EPICS-tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: CA online: A call to "assert (semTake ...

Jeff Hill wrote:
> 
> Hi Coles,
> 
> The symptoms you describe occur when you try to run EPICS R3.13 with the
> SENS IP kernel which is option with vxWorks 5.3 and I suspect mandatory
> with vxWorks 5.4. You can avoid this problem by choosing to _not_ install
> SENs when you install vxWorks 5.3. The API used to query the broadcast
> addresses used for each network interface card changes when using the
> SENS IP kernel, and this causes original versions of CA to fail miserably.
> I have installed a workaround for this problem into 3.14 and could back
> patch 3.13 if there is a strong desire to use SENS with R3.13.
> 
> Jeff


I think it would be a good idea to support SENS on R3.13.

Marty Kraimer