Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Abbott <[email protected]> · Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:44:29 +0000 (GMT)

Is there any way to request the orderly shutdown of an IOC, waiting for
all IOC threads to terminate (I'm guessing not).
I have a lot of resources open which I would like to close cleanly: but if
IOC threads are still running then I have to synchronise with them to
ensure closed resources aren't used by calls from IOC threads.
Am I better off just pulling the plug, leaving everything running and
relying on exit to do the right thing?
I can (and do) shut my own threads down in an orderly fashion, but the IOC
threads seem to be out of reach.
I'm running an EPICS 3.14 IOC as a Linux process, using iocsh(filename) to
load databases and get things rolling, and then running as a daemon the
rest of the time.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System