Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Hi Kay,
> date()
> exit()
> 
> the date is printed, but instead of then exiting, I get the "epics>"
> prompt.
I recently ran into the same issue. I actually intended to see if this
can be changed without any negative consequences. The IOC shell code
actually handles "exit" a bit weird - it just returns rather than
shutting down [1]. Returning is not sufficient since IOC applications
usually contain something like

iocsh(argv[1]);
iocsh(NULL);

The first line processes the st.cmd file and returns when it finds an
"exit" line. The second line results in an interactive shell session.

> IOCAdmin EPICS Module has a PV called $(IOC):SYSRESET that you could>
> dbpf after your sleep.
Unfortunately iocStats is not available with the softIOC executable.

My use case:

iocInit()
system('python3 test.py') # writes test output to test.tap
exit()

We are running something like this on our CI server.

-Martin

[1]
https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/blob/7.0/modules/libcom/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp#L819

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Michigan State University
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