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Subject: Custom file saving plugin in AreaDetector
From: Hinko Kočevar <[email protected]>
To: EPICS tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:47:49 +0200
Hi,

Segmentation fault happens when saving data to a file from my custom made file saving plugin, that extends the NDPluginFile base class like all other file saving plugins. Saving mode is Capture, meaning a capture buffer, of user specified capture size, is preallocated in advance. During capturing, NDArrays are put into this buffer through callbacks. Actual file saving can occur either when the number of captures(captured NDArrays) reaches the number specified by the user, or when the user manually clicks save before the actually capturing has finished. When saving is done, the preallocated capture buffer is freed. If capturing is still carried on after the saving, which does happen in the case of user clicking save prematurely before the capturing reaches the number specified by the user, segmentation fault happens. The segmentation fault happens in code NDPluginFile.cpp at line 594 (EPICS base 3.14.12.3):

591 case NDFileModeCapture:
592 if (capture) {
593 if (numCaptured < numCapture) {
594 this->pNDArrayPool->copy(pArray, this->pCapture[numCaptured++], 1);
595 arrayCounter++;
596 setIntegerParam(NDFileNumCaptured, numCaptured);

Inspecting the segmentation fault, pCapture was a NULL pointer, the numCaptured was the size of captured NDArrayes at clicking save prematurely.

Since the capture buffer is freed after save, I will avoid this problem by stopping the capture when save is done.

Is a better way to handle this? Maybe there should be a check in the code to avoid segmentation fault, when the NDArray buffer is NULL.

Best regards,
Hinko


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