From ac128fc048456675435cd4f6b19db351c7a39576 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Eric Norum" <wenorum@lbl.gov>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:14:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add iocshArgPersistentString type.

---
 src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp | 5 +++++
 src/iocsh/iocsh.h   | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp b/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp
index 62e352c87..5ed55c18c 100644
--- a/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp
+++ b/src/iocsh/iocsh.cpp
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 #include "errlog.h"
 #include "dbAccess.h"
+#include "epicsString.h"
 #include "epicsThread.h"
 #include "epicsMutex.h"
 #include "registry.h"
@@ -179,6 +180,10 @@ cvtArg (const char *filename, int lineno, char *arg, iocshArgBuf *argBuf, const
         argBuf->sval = arg;
         break;
 
+    case iocshArgPersistentString:
+        argBuf->sval = epicsStrDup(arg);
+        break;
+
     case iocshArgPdbbase:
         /* Argument must be missing or 0 or pdbbase */
         if(!arg || !*arg || (*arg == '0') || (strcmp(arg, "pdbbase") == 0)) {
diff --git a/src/iocsh/iocsh.h b/src/iocsh/iocsh.h
index 263c316dd..3a8754691 100644
--- a/src/iocsh/iocsh.h
+++ b/src/iocsh/iocsh.h
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ typedef enum {
     iocshArgDouble,
     iocshArgString,
     iocshArgPdbbase,
-    iocshArgArgv
+    iocshArgArgv,
+    iocshArgPersistentString
 }iocshArgType;
 
 typedef union iocshArgBuf {