Re: strange behaviour of dbLoadtemplate

[Marty Kraimer <mrk@aps.anl.gov>]

Luedeke Andreas WSLA/209 wrote:


> PS: is it a desired feature, that escaped characters are only handled in substitution files but not
> in templates?



I looked and the reason is that the lex definitions for the code that implements 
dbLoadRecord has definitions to handle escapes but the lex definitions for 
dbLoadTemples doesnt.

Perhaps the dbLoadTemplates code could be changed but if so the changes would 
have to be checked very carefully. Please note that msi can be used on the host 
to do what dbLoadTemplates does on the ioc. If many templates are being 
instantiated then it is much faster to load the result of msi than to use 
dbLoadTemplate. Users are encouraged to use msi NOT dbLoadTemplates.


See


http://www.aps.anl.gov/asd/controls/epics/EpicsDocumentation/ExtensionsManuals/msi/msi.html


Marty Kraimer