[Rock-dev] [rock] #107: orocos.rb: connect_to behavior

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#107: orocos.rb: connect_to behavior
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Reporter:  thro02  |      Owner:  rock-dev-mailing-list
    Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
Priority:  normal  |  Component:  base
Keywords:          |
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 The current behavior of 'connect_to' allows to create multiple connections
 between the same input and output port. This leads to a reading of a
 corresponding number of NEW samples on the receiver side, when sending
 only ONE item to the actual output port, e.g. using the following
 (incomplete) example

 sender.out.connect_to receiver.in
 sender.out.connect_to receiver.in
 sender.out.connect_to receiver.in
 ...

 in receiver's Task.cpp updateHook
 while(_in.read(sample) == RTT::NewData)
 {
     // When sender sends one sample on 'out' port
     // three loops taken here, i.e. 1 per created connection
 }

 I intuitively would have expected a restriction of one connection per
 input/output port.

 Stumbled across this while using autoconnect and also establishing
 connections manually in the supervision.

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