Utilities Library

The utilities support module contains some C/C++ functions useful to IOC and support module developers

putDbAndWait

This is based on dbtpn from the epics base dbNotify.c. It allows setting a PV from within C/C++ and waiting for a completion callback, if you do not need such a callback then using dbNameToAddr and dbPutField is sufficient.

putDbAndWait(const std::string& pvName, const void *value, double timeout)

value is interpreted as appropriate for the data type of pvName