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Subject: autosave bug
From: Tim Mooney <[email protected]>
To: EPICS tech-talk <[email protected]>, [email protected], Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 14:31:02 -0500
Dear folks,  Autosave has a long-standing bug, in all versions since
array support was added (R4-0).  If the representation of an array PV
in a .sav file is exactly 119 bytes long, boot-time restore will
process the PV twice, first correctly as an array, then as a scalar
with no data.  This results in the first array element being set to zero.

A new version of autosave, in which the bug is fixed (R4-7), is
available at
http://www.aps.anl.gov/bcda/synApps/autosave/autosave.html

Thanks to Mark Rivers for finding this bug.

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Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
Software Services Group, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.

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