Experimental Physics and
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Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:33:42 +0100

On Monday 22 December 2014 11:13:25 Andrew Johnson wrote:
> On 12/19/2014 08:39 PM, Williams Jr., Ernest L. wrote:
> > What happened to  "dbNameOfPV" ?
> >
> > In EPICS 3.14.x  ===>  $(BASE_TOP)/include/dbAddr.h
> >
> > "dbNameOfPV" is no longer in 3.15 ?
>
> Yup, it got removed because it doesn't include any field modifiers
> that might have been used with the PV name, and because we changed
> the internals slightly, so you will have to modify the caPutLog code
> to match anyway.

Hi Andrew,

Ralph pointed me from core-talk to this thread (I have a bit of a
problem to catch up on tech-talk, especially after holidays, which is
why I wasn't aware of it yet).

> > dbNameOfPV is used by caPutLog
>
> In 3.15 the void * asTrapWriteMessage.serverSpecific pointer that gets
> passed to the listeners is no longer a dbAddr*, it's now a dbChannel*
> so to get the PV name all RSRV asTrapWriteListeners must call
>     dbChannelName((dbChannel *) msg.serverSpecific)
> instead, which returns a const char* holding the channel's full PV
> name.

Ok, that looks easy.

> I just updated the 3.15.1 AppDevGuide to correct this in the Access
> Security chapter, although we haven't actually documented the
> dbChannel API there yet (see dbChannel.h and post questions here
> until that gets written, sorry).

I think for caPutLog this should be all I need for the moment.

Cheers
Ben
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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