Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:18:47 -0500

Hi Mark,

On Friday 29 October 2010 17:03:03 Mark Rivers wrote:
>
> I am trying to run an application built for the cygwin-x86-debug
> architecture, and I am seeing a very strange behaviour.  The application
> run fine, until control returns to the iocsh prompt.  I have an
> epicsThreadSleep at the end of my st.cmd file, so the application runs for
> a while before I get the prompt. As soon as I get the prompt it appears
> that the EPICS threads are hung waiting for console input!  If I keep my
> finger on the Enter key on the keyboard, so I keep sending CR characters,
> the application runs fine.  As soon as I release my finger from the key the
> application freezes!
>
> If I had to guess what the problem was, I would suspect a problem with
> readline.  Has anyone else run IOC applications under cygwin-x86-debug, and
> if so have you seen this problem?

Weird, never seen that myself.  Have you tried rebuilding Base with readline 
turned off?  You then won't be able to do history recall, but it might stop 
the funny behaviour.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System