From e09506c2bb97ef1ecf91af788eb1592a10252b91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Zimoch <dirk.zimoch@psi.ch>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 17:02:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] always enable error messages when loading protocol files

---
 src/StreamEpics.cc | 6 ++++++
 src/StreamError.cc | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/StreamEpics.cc b/src/StreamEpics.cc
index 6c2610b..1f5261f 100644
--- a/src/StreamEpics.cc
+++ b/src/StreamEpics.cc
@@ -196,8 +196,12 @@ extern "C" long streamReload(char* recordname)
     dbCommon*   record;
     long status;
 
+    int oldStreamError = streamError;
+    streamError = 1;
+
     if(!pdbbase) {
         error("No database has been loaded\n");
+        streamError = oldStreamError;
         return ERROR;
     }
     debug("streamReload(%s)\n", recordname);
@@ -234,6 +238,7 @@ extern "C" long streamReload(char* recordname)
     }
     dbFinishEntry(&dbentry);
     StreamProtocolParser::free();
+    streamError = oldStreamError;
     return OK;
 }
 
@@ -408,6 +413,7 @@ long streamInit(int after)
 {
     if (after)
     {
+        streamError = 0; // Switch off errors after init in order not to spam messages when a device is down.
         StreamProtocolParser::free();
     }
     return OK;
diff --git a/src/StreamError.cc b/src/StreamError.cc
index e5d38d1..5ba0832 100644
--- a/src/StreamError.cc
+++ b/src/StreamError.cc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 
 int streamDebug = 0;
-int streamError = 0;
+int streamError = 1;
 extern "C" {
 #ifdef _WIN32
 __declspec(dllexport)