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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: stream without asynPort]
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:09:58 -0800
I think that executing commands falls into the 'slow' category and thus should not take place in a record processing thread.  The asynOctet approach provides a simple mechanism for handling the command in a worker thread.

On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Ralph Lange wrote:

> On 21.02.2011 18:45 Eric Norum wrote:
>> I wrote a simply asynOctet driver to do this.  I've not yet packaged this up for official release until I hear back from the folks testing this.
>> I'm not 100% sure that it's a good idea to allow commands to be run as the result of record processing, but maybe there's a real need out there.
> 
> Any subroutine record can execute commands in the context of record processing. Where's the big difference?
> 
> ~Ralph
> 

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Eric Norum
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References:
[Fwd: Re: stream without asynPort] Dirk Zimoch
Re: [Fwd: Re: stream without asynPort] Eric Norum
Re: [Fwd: Re: stream without asynPort] Ralph Lange

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