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Subject:	Units request for stringin records
From:	John Faucett <[email protected]>
To:	[email protected]
Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:11:58 -0700

Title: Units request for stringin records

The stringin record for EPICS 3.13.7 does not respond to a request for units (DBR_GR_SHORT). After 3 seconds the request times out with

CA.Client.Exception...............................................

Warning: "Channel read request failed"

Context: "op=0, channel=ABCDE, type=DBR_GR_SHORT, count=1, ctx="read failed""

Source File: ../getCopy.cpp line 82

Current Time: Mon Dec 19 2008 14:22:41.375447000

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Previous versions of EPICS did this too. As far as I know, no other record type has this problem.

We've just started experimenting with JCA2 (the latest version) after using JCA1 for many years. I've discovered that JCA2 crashes the Java virtual machine when it tries to get the units for these records (JCA1 doesn't have this problem):