Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ben Franksen <[email protected]> · Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:22:39 +0100

On Montag, 15. November 2010, Ben Franksen wrote:
> On Montag, 15. November 2010, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> > While you're making sequencer changes, [...]

...would anyone be sad if I removed the -s switch for stand-alone 
sequencer programs (i.e. those which which have been compiled 
with 'snc -m' and thus contain a main function) and instead always 
start them with an iocsh?

The problem is that it is easy to forget the -s switch which leaves you 
with a program that cannot be interrupted other than with a kill -9 
(SIG_TERM). This is just annoying and I don't see a compelling use 
case.

A compromise would be to just reverse the default, so you'd need an 
extra switch to say 'no ioc shell'.

Cheers
Ben
-- 
"Never confuse what is natural with what is habitual."
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System