Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 5 May 2011 10:39:59 -0500

Hi Lorna,

On Thursday 05 May 2011 04:41:57 [email protected] wrote:
> Okay, now it seems the thread local storage epics implemented for
> vxWorks (in vxWorks\osdThread.c) is not working.
> 
> When I'm calling ca_context_create from a second worker thread in a single
> process, I'll get the first context (which was created by the first worker
> thread) returned by epicsThreadPrivateGet.

Can you try running the libCom test suite into your vxWorks system and running 
it.  Instead of booting an IOC, load the bin/vxWorks-*/vxTestHarness.munch 
file from Base for your architecture and run the command epicsRunLibComTests 
to execute all of the tests, or for the epicsThreadPrivate facility alone you 
would run the command epicsThreadPrivateTest.  If what you say above is 
correct then that test will fail.

However I have an explanation if that test does not fail; I think the problem 
you're seeing might be caused by loading two copies of libCom into the IOC, 
which will definitely *not* work properly.  If your startup script loads more 
than one .munch file, only the first one you load should be linked against the 
$(EPICS_BASE_IOC_LIBS).  I usually recommend that you link all of your vxWorks 
binaries into a single .munch file, but you can load multiple files as long 
you're careful how you build them.

HTH,

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System