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Subject: Re: mbbiRecord undefined state
From: Marty Kraimer <[email protected]>
To: Bernd Schoeneburg <[email protected]>
Cc: TECHTALK <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:13:38 -0600
I agree with your conclusion. I will make your suggested change so that it will
be in the next 3.13 and 3.14 releases.

Marty Kraimer

Bernd Schoeneburg wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I have just discovered something that seems to me to be a bug in the
> mbbi record support routines. When status-values are defined but the
> current raw value doesn't fit any of them, the value will become 65535
> and the UDF bit will be set. In the alarm routine UDF causes an invalid
> severity error which can not be overwritten by something else. This
> leads to the situation that the setting of the UNSV field is without any
> effect.
> I propose to delete all existing manipulations of UDF in process() and
> insert only one "..->udf = FALSE" when the raw value is successfully
> read. This is the place after "if (status == 0)". This works fine for
> me. Any comments?
> 
> Bernd
> 
> Bernd Schoeneburg
> Group MKS-2
> DESY, Germany


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