Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Tue, 15 May 2012 12:59:00 +0200

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, you wrote:
> > > At present, I am doing something like this:
> > > 
> > > 1.  Invoke ca_create_channel() with a connection state change
> > > handler.
> > > 
> > >     The connection state change handler sets a flag to indicate that
> > >     the connection has complete.
> > > 
> > > 2.  Call ca_pend_io() to make sure the request is sent on its way.
> > 
> > You want to use ca_flush (or was it called ca_flush_io?) for that.
> > AFAIK ca_pend_io does not send accumulated requests, it just waits for
> > responses (and other events).
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Ben
> 
> I'm not sure about that.  The first sentence of the description for
> ca_pend_io() says:
> 
>   Flushes the send buffer and then waits until outstanding queries
> complete or the specified time out expires.
> 
> When I look at the source code for EPICS Base 3.14.12.2, I see that
> ca_pend_io() gets a ca_client_context object in the variable "pcac" and
> then calls the pcac->pendIO() method of that object.  The pendIO()
> method, in turn calls the this->flush() method of the same object.
> ca_flush_io() instead directly calls pcac->flush() on the context
> object.  So it looks like ca_pend_io() does everything that
> ca_flush_io() does and more.

Sorry for the misinformation, then.

Cheers
Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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