Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Can this value be increased in the source instead and be available in the next release (whenever that is)?

Applying a patch as simple as this requires 

- create the patch

- modify the autosave installation script to apply patches

- document the change

- inform QA

- inform coworkers

when 6 months later, you have machine operations issue and you realize that

- a rogue IOC 

- installed by an intern

- who did not read the documentation

- did a manual install and was unaware of the patch

Could you please increase the value of  MAXRESTOREFILES (or implement a chained list) in the next version of autosave?

Regards,

--

Emmanuel

 
> There's no real reason autosave is limited to 8 files, other than that I
> didn't know anyone wanted more than that. I haven't tested large numbers
> of files, but you can edit save_restore.h and change
> #define MAXRESTOREFILES 8
> to whatever you want. The number of save files is already unlimited (you
> can make as many create_monitor_set() calls as you want.)
>
> Yes, the number of restore files could be made unlimited. That's what I
> meant to imply when I said that the list of restore file names could be
> implemented as a linked list. If someone wants 1000 files, then a linked
> list is probably called for. If 30 is enough, then
> #define MAXRESTOREFILES 30
> seems adequate. All we're doing is allocating an array of pointers.
>
> Tim
>
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> Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
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> Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab