Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:21:00 -0600

> And why not setting PINI=Yes to say this record is processed and ready
> to use and keep the one thing for all records in mind that:  a record
is
> undefined and invalid until it is processed! This behaviour is
> neccessary for all records with hardware access and to start all
records
> this way keeps from beeing puzzled about what state any particular
> record should be have after the start of an ioc because it is UDF
INVALID.

Saying PINI=Yes is not "saying this record is processed", it actually
processes the record.  That can have major side-effects, if it has PP or
CP links to other records.

I understand what you are saying about records with hardware access.  My
argument is that records with soft device support and constant links
already initialize with UDF=0, but they have STAT=UDF.  I don't see a
reason why such a soft record needs to process, but I realize that
changing this now is probably not practical.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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