Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Bruce,

On Friday 30 October 2009 18:41:33 Bruce Hill wrote:
  

I have a genSub I've setup to run test code on my IOC, and I'm getting
errors when I try to read the test set data files.    This is an RTEMS
4.7.1 based
IOC accessing an NFS mounted filesystem.     I'm able to read the same
files from a genSub Init function, but not from the Process function.
I can also read these files if I initiate the test from the Cexp shell
on the RTEMS console.

Is there something about how the Process functions are called that would
preclude file I/O?
    

No, although file I/O is blocking and as such will cause whatever scan thread 
is processing that record to be delayed and could affect whatever control 
algorithms the IOC is running at the time.  We usually suggest that the best 
way to do file I/O inside the IOC is in a SNL program which can block whenever 
it likes and talk to the PVs using CA, or even global variables (provided you 
understand the need to lock them).

I suspect the issue might be due to the fact that NFS can take up quite a lot 
of stack space - can you check whether the relevent thread has gone over its 
allotted stack?

- Andrew
  

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Bruce Hill
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SLAC National Accelerator Lab
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