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

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@bessy.de>]

 On 18.11.2010 03:02, Burkhard Kolb wrote:
> [...]
> The extra code is a library which uses RPC (sun...) to communicate. This is also the
> component which apparently hangs until there is a "RPC Timeout" which actually takes
> pretty long.
> When the epicsExit call is executed the IOC hangs, the clients report after some
> time the connection loss, but procServ does not restart the IOC because it's not completely
> exited yet.

Have you tried the brute force method of just calling plain exit() from 
the subroutine record?
The shutdown might be less orderly, but should be instant.

Ralph