Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Eric Norum <[email protected]> · Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:40:41 -0800

As far as I know the IOC shell code was written with the intention that the scope of a redirection would be that of a single command only (like the first dbl redirect that you mention below).  The behaviour that you describe is clearly wrong, but I think is a result of the code missing an error test and report when attempting to redirect the output of an empty command.

On Dec 6, 2013, at 9:24 AM, John Dobbins <[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I was experimenting with redirection in the iocsh and the results were not as I expected.
> 
> I have used commands like
> 
> dbl>records.txt
> 
> in the past and they work fine.
> 
> So I created an example IOC (makeBaseApp.pl -t example) and tried:
> 
> epics> 1>test.txt
> epics> dbl
> 
> and got:
> 
> Can't open "": No such file or directory.
> 
> the file test.txt was created but was empty.
> 
> Running the same test on another computer might produce
> 
> epics> 1>test.txt
> epics> dbl
> Can't open "ØîØð8": No such file or directory.
> 
> again test.txt is created but empty.
> 
> 
> And interestingly on a third computer
> 
> epics> 1>test.txt
> epics> dbl
> 
> will create test.txt but will output a list of records to a file named "èþ8Þ"
> 
> 
> 
> BTW, I was playing with this because I wanted to redirect stderr to a file. The App Developer Guide mentions epicsStdioRedirect and I was wondering what it would take to get redirection to work in any specific IOC.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards and thanks,
> 
> John Dobbins
> Cornell University
> 
> 
> 

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Eric Norum
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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