Re: How to shutdown/restart a soft-ioc from a (watchdog) record

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Burkhard,

On Wednesday 17 November 2010 05:03:06 Burkhard Kolb wrote:
> How do I properly exit a soft-ioc when a record detects some malfunction?
> I tried epicsExit(), but that does not work from the subRecord which I
> trigger form a calcout record.

What does the epicsExit() call do when you use it?  That is how you're meant 
to shut down the IOC, but there may be drivers running which haven't properly 
registered an epicsAtExit() routine to stop their background threads, which 
can result in the process not stopping properly.  What extra code are you 
including in the IOC?

- Andrew
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