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Subject: | Re: PV aliases |
From: | Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> |
To: | Heinrich du Toit <[email protected]> |
Cc: | [email protected] |
Date: | Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:49:39 -0500 |
Why not put the aliasing in a PV gateway?
This way you don't have to change the IOC's And you don't have to change and client sofware. You simply need to change the software on one gateway.
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 10:01 -0400, Lawrence T. Hoff wrote:I may have been the one who initiated the discussion a few years ago. I encountered a situation which I believed was best addressed using server-side aliases. I created a patch to EPICS core (which could be loaded into a VxWorks system as a separate module), which implemented server-side aliases.
P.S. As near as I could tell, there was not universal enthusiasm for server-side aliases at that time. Maybe at next week's EPICS collaboration meeting the discussion could begin anew?
- Andrew -- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke