From fd879a0b4c3ca9394ebecae04353ff157bc4c73f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: smathis <stefan.mathis@psi.ch>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:23:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Experimenting

---
 test/ioc/st.cmd          | 2 ++
 test/m_epics_ca_test.cxx | 7 +------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/ioc/st.cmd b/test/ioc/st.cmd
index 87c061f..23d63bc 100755
--- a/test/ioc/st.cmd
+++ b/test/ioc/st.cmd
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ iocInit()
 
 # Initialize the waveform record
 dbpf("MEPICSCA:TEST:WAVEFORM", "ABC")
+
+echo "IOC running"
diff --git a/test/m_epics_ca_test.cxx b/test/m_epics_ca_test.cxx
index d5d4008..b2395f6 100644
--- a/test/m_epics_ca_test.cxx
+++ b/test/m_epics_ca_test.cxx
@@ -44,13 +44,8 @@ class IocProcess {
         _pid = fork();
 
         if (_pid == 0) {
-            int devnull = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
 
-            dup2(devnull, STDIN_FILENO);
-            dup2(devnull, STDOUT_FILENO);
-            dup2(devnull, STDERR_FILENO);
-
-            close(devnull);
+            fprintf(stderr, "Starting IOC with PID %d\n", getpid());
 
             execl(path.c_str(), path.c_str(), (char *)NULL);
             perror("execl failed");