Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hunt Steven <[email protected]> · Wed, 14 May 2003 17:10:55 +0200

Ah, thinking about it doesn't dbLoadTemplate do the same (write to stdout,
and errors to stderr), I have this in a tcl catch { exec ...} call which
detects anything being written to stdout, so perhaps the problem is that the
error is not being detected by msi ???  as a test I added a ";" to a
template file (one of our most common errors).  dbLoadTemplate seems to
catch this msi not.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Lange [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2003 16:53
To: Steve Hunt
Cc: EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: Re: msi vs dbLoadTemplate

I even found the details of Marty's answer. But admittedly I didn't find
out more about the problem nor did it stay on my mind for much longer...

Ralph

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Since msi writes all output to stdout what can it do if it fails?

Note that when it detects errors it writes messages to stderr and calls
usageExit which returns a value of 1. This the script that calls it
could remove any redirected file is msi returns 1.

Have you found out any more about this problem?

Marty
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>>>>> "Ralph" == Ralph Lange <[email protected]> writes:

  > I was reporting this to Marty in March - he said that he would try to
  > have this fixed before 3.14.2 gets out - which has not happened yet.

  > 3.14.2 being released, that is...

  > Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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