Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:23:45 -0500

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> Ben Franksen wrote:
> 
> > (s)he wants to have a simple installation procedure like
> >"place a call 'register...' in your startup file" and _not_ "You also
> >have to copy your initHooks.c to your application directory, patch it in
> >the following (detailed explanation here, where to put the code)
> 
> This procedure with initHooks.c is exactly something I have to do for
> warm restart (bumpless reboot).  I add in the calls to restore data at
> the proper places in initHooks.  Other people must be doing a something
> similar.  If it is decided not to add in some sort of registration as
> Ben suggests which could also be used for warm restart, then it'd be
> good to have this initHooks procedure added to the "EPICS IOC Application
> Building and Source Release Control" (EPICS Release 3.13.0.beta7).  I'll
> help define this procedure if need be.
> 
> Stephanie Allison
> [email protected]

I agree that we should have the existing initHooks replaced
by Ben's suggested version. I dont think there are any compatibility
problems since iocInit does a symFindByName to locate initHooks.
Thus if existing application supply their own initHooks.c ther should
still work.

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System