Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 00:33, Jeff Hill wrote:
> > One could argue that the same reasoning applies to all other kinds
> > of start-up code that gets executed more or less immediately after
> > IOC boot, e.g. in record and device supports init and init_record
> > routines.
> > An out-of-memory situation here invariably means the IOC is
> > overloaded
> > and obviously /cannot/ run as the developer planned.
>
> An alternative perspective is that this error handling model can be
> an obstacle in the path of implementing on line add and delete
> capabilities for the IOC. For example, its probably not great for the
> IOC to fail if someone does an online add and we hit a resource
> consumption limit. 

Right. I withdraw my recommendation to use xxxMustSucceed in init 
routines. Let's hope we /will/ get online add/delete, eventually...

Ben

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RE: callocMustSucceed error handling model Jeff Hill

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