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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:09:25 -0600

Hi Mark,

On Thursday 11 March 2010 08:51:36 Mark Rivers wrote:
>
> One way to avoid this is to always restart your vxWorks IOC with the
> "reboot" command.  That will cause the EPICS exit handlers to be called. 
> Recent versions of asyn install EPICS exit handlers which will cleanly
> close all TCP sockets, and EPICS CA also closes things cleanly.  Even if
> you need to power off the vxWorks system, you should first type "reboot",
> then power it off.  This will close the sockets cleanly.

Actually this will only work if you have a specific modification to your 
vxWorks BSP which ensures that the epicsAtExit() handlers get called before 
the network shuts down.  Note that a Control-X reboot will also cause these to 
run.

The patch requires registering a rebootHook() early in the BSP startup process 
before the network is initialized.  I described it in the tech-talk message 
here: http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2005/msg00004.php

- Andrew
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