Re: CA output links not working with PINI=YES?

["Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On Mar 5, 2020, at 12:03 PM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

This is menuPini.dbd


menu(menuPini) {
       choice(menuPiniNO,"NO")
       choice(menuPiniYES,"YES")
       choice(menuPiniRUN,"RUN")
       choice(menuPiniRUNNING,"RUNNING")
       choice(menuPiniPAUSE,"PAUSE")
       choice(menuPiniPAUSED,"PAUSED")
}

Where is this documented?

It was described in the Release Notes for 3.14.11 when the code changed. Unfortunately the changes made in the 3.14 series were removed from that document when 3.16 came out (IIRC). The old notes say:

PINI Processing and PHAS values

The PINI field now has its own menu type with four more choices, RUN, RUNNING, PAUSE and PAUSED. The earlier NO and YES values for this field remain as before and cause the same processing as before. The new values cause records to be processed during the announcement of the new initHookAtIocRun, initHookAfterIocRunning, initHookAtIocPause and initHookAfterIocPaused states respectively.

Records with PINI=YES will be processed during the iocBuild stage of iocInit, follwed by records with PINI=RUN during the iocRun stage and records with PINI=RUNNING during the initHookAfterIocRunning stage. If an iocPause command is given, any records with PINI=PAUSE will be processed at the initHookAtIocPause stage followed by records with PINI=PAUSED will be processed at the initHookAfterIocPaused stage. A subsequent iocRun command causes the PINI=RUN and PINI=RUNNING records to be processed again.

The PHAS field now controls the order in which records are processed as a result of the PINI mechanism; within each stage, lower values of PHAS are scanned before higher ones.

Unfortunately (as with many newer features in Base) this text hasn’t been added to any other documentation yet. People keep finding bugs and asking for new features so the core developers don’t have as much time as we’d like to maintain the documentation as well as we’d like.

- Andrew

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