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Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:14:00 +0000

Hi Kuldeep,

Have you been seeing this issue?  If so, how hard is it to reproduce?

I looked at the bug report link in your message.  At the end there are 2 comments:

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Frank Mori Hess - 2015-04-04
This should be fixed in svn now. A change was required to the library-kernel interface, so both the library and kernel modules will have to be upgraded.

Andreas Huettel - 2015-04-07
I can confirm the fix, tested with a NI USB GPIB adapter. Perl scripts can be cancelled with CTRL-C and then started again, no visible problems anymore. Thanks!!!
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So this suggests that the problem was fixed in the linux-gpib package almost 5 years ago.

If so, is it possible for you to upgrade to a more recent version?

Mark

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Kuldeep Joshi via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 2:05 AM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: ASYN Module: Workaround for bug due to improper handling of signal in linux-gpib

Hello,

Can the workaround as suggested in this link https://sourceforge.net/p/linux-gpib/bugs/50/#85e8
be incorporated for the drvLinuxGpib.c in the ASYN module.
The workaround suggests to mask all the signals during call to ibrd() or ibwrt()

Thanks and regards,
Kuldeep

The text of the above link is reproduced as below
"When a program receives a signal while it is in a call to a linux-gpib driver it can happen that the application hangs. This is because for historic reasons the linux-gpib driver framework does not properly handle the return of -ERESTARTSYS from its device drivers. Unfortunately to fix this systematically in the package is a lot of work. The symptoms of a hang, due to signals, are that the program receiving the signal hangs, blocking other programs from accessing the device and in the console log you can find messages such

as:

agilent_82350b: write wait interrupted.

or

.../gpib/ni_usb/ni_usb_gpib.c: ni_usb_nonblocking_receive_bulk_msg: interrupted

"

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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