[omniORB] Getting in trouble with threads.

[Sai-Lai Lo]

Henrik,

> 1. Before starting up the ORB, BOA etc some other object initialisations
> are performed and a separate thread is started up, that is in fact not
> using omnithread, but pthreads, which is obviously behind the omnithread
> on Solaris.

When you say "some other object initialisations", I hope you don't mean
some CORBA object reference initialisation! One should *always* call
CORBA::ORB_init() before initialising any CORBA object
references. Otherwise, the result is unpredictable.

Just try this:

0. Call CORBA::ORB_init(), and then

> 1. Before starting up the ORB, BOA etc some other object initialisations
> are performed and a separate thread is started up, that is in fact not
> using omnithread, but pthreads, which is obviously behind the omnithread
> on Solaris.
> 2. Init ORB, BOA ...
> 3. Binding of CORBA-fied server object to context.
> 4. Starting up all CORBA related services, ... last
> boa->impl_is_ready().
> 5. Starting up a separate client using nameservice to connect to server
> object.
> 6. Call on client of server based object member, but the call is not
> performed on server's object member.
> 

Tell me if this works.

Sai-Lai

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