 03 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mscb usb support for macosx
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After a felicitous confuence of stellar bodies (Stefan, myself, some mscb hardware
and a mac laptop all in the same room for a few days), I wrote some MacOSX
code to support the MSCB-USB dongle using the native IoKit USB API. During testing,
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 03 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> However, we are planning to make a new release 1.9.5 soon (next week), so can can people tell not to "mix" 1.9.5 with pre-1.9.5 programs.
Right. We cannot fix the past, but we should fix the future. BTW, "do not mix versions" is hard to enforce and mismatches did, do and
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08 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Increased number of clients in midas.h, important!
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> A lot of programs have a commandline option, such as "--version", where they return the program version number then exit. As well as the
> program version number, the version number of the midas library it's linked with could also be returned (There can be more than one
> libmidas.so on a system and this would show which one was currently being linked)
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, db_paste: found string exceeding MAX_STRING_LENGTH
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I am updating TWIST to the latest MIDAS and when I load a saved .odb file, I get
these messages. Their text ought to say where and what strings it does not like.
K.O.
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, silly odbedit "rename Display xxx/yyy"
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odbedit command "rename Display xxx/yyy" creates a key named "xxx/yyy" (yes,
with a slash in the name) and this key cannot be deleted or renamed...
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, No al_clear_alarm()?
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We have al_trigger_alarm(), but no matching al_clear_alarm(), and I need it to
clear my alarm once the alarm condition no longer exists. Any objections if I
add this function? K.O. |
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, No al_clear_alarm()?
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> > We have al_trigger_alarm(), but no matching al_clear_alarm(), and I need it to
> > clear my alarm once the alarm condition no longer exists. Any objections if I
> > add this function? K.O.
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
will add information as I figure things out. K.O. |
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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> The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
> crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
> will add information as I figure things out. K.O.
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13 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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> > The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
> > crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
> > will add information as I figure things out. K.O.
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14 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, lazylogger complains about zero-size files
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With latest midas, I see this:
Thu Oct 14 19:31:17 2004 [Lazy_Tape] [lazylogger.c:1717:Lazy] lazy_file_exists
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14 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, TWIST upgrade bombed...
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> The upgrade of TWIST to the latest midas has bombed- we see mevb and mlogger
> crashes during shared memory data buffer accesses. I am looking into it and I
> will add information as I figure things out. K.O.
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22 Oct 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Fix, mhttpd message colouring
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I commited a fix to mhttpd logic that decides which messages should be shown in
"red" colour- before, any message with square brackets and colons would be
highlighted in red. Now only messages matching the pattern [...:...] are
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, use of assert in mhttpd
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> We've had mhttpd aborting regularly since upgrading from midas-1.9.3. This
> happens during elog queries, and is due to an elog file that was incorrectly
> modified by hand.
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Commit local TWIST modifications
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I am commiting MIDAS modification accumulated during the last few months of running TWIST:
1) system.c::ss_shm_open() fail if trying to map a file that is smaller than we expect.
2) midas.c::bm_lock_buffer(), el_submit(), el_delete_message(): do not wait for mutexes forever, use a 5
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Commit local TWIST modifications
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> I am commiting MIDAS modification accumulated during the last few months of running TWIST:
More:
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14 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, mhttpd: Commit local TWIST modifications
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> > I am commiting MIDAS modification accumulated...
mhttpd changes:
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16 Dec 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, "cd /" in ss_daemon_init(), was- Commit local TWIST modifications
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> > - system.c: do not chdir("/") in ss_daemon_init()- it prevents us from ever
> > getting core dumps from midas daemons.
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20 Jan 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, HOWTO create ROOT objects in the MIDAS analyzer
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With recent changes to mana.c, creation of user ROOT objects in the MIDAS
analyser has changed. Here is the new example code for creating ROOT objects
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20 Jan 2005, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Persistency problem with h1_book() & co
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The current h1_book() macros (and the previous example analyzer code) have an
odd persistency problem: for example, the user wants to change some histogram
limits, edits the h1_book() calls, rebuilds and restarts the analyzer, starts a
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