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Subject: CA_DISABLE_REPEATER Re: Killing caRepeater on Windows 10
From: "Kasemir, Kay via Tech-talk" <[email protected]>
To: "Rivers, Mark L." <[email protected]>, "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:15:32 +0000
> One of the hassles with Windows is that you cannot delete or replace an executable or dll if any process is using it.
> If an EPICS client or IOC is run on Windows it will launch a caRepeater process that runs in the background.
> If you want to update your EPICS installation you must kill that caRepeater process before you can do so.

The Java CA client implementation has the same issue:
Run any program that uses the CA client for the first time, and it launches a caRepeater Java process.
Closing all clients leaves that process running.

For the Java CA client, there's a property
   -DCA_DISABLE_REPEATER=true
that will keep it from launching the caRepeater.
Most members of the general public will never notice that they don't have a CA repeater.
Worst that can happen is that after an IOC reboots, you need to close/reopen some display.
The automatic re-connect supported by the caRepeater is essential in the control room, but for people in their office who start a tool, look at it, close it, the dangling caRepeater instance may be more bug than feature.
Is it worthwhile to have the C implementation also look for a CA_DISABLE_REPEATER type setting?

Thanks,
-Kay
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Re: CA_DISABLE_REPEATER Re: Killing caRepeater on Windows 10 J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk
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Killing caRepeater on Windows 10 Mark Rivers via Tech-talk
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