Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:22:17 -0500

On 10/29/10 5:03 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> Folks,
>  
> 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?
>  
> Any ideas?

Hi, Mark.

Can you try building w/out readline (e.g. COMMANDLINE_LIBRARY = EPICS)?
 This will help determine whether readline is the problem, and, if
you're still trying to debug the CA problem, would let you get back to
focusing on that for now.

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System