[omniORB] communicating via ordinary socket within a omniORB server

[Luke Deller]

Gerd Schmitt wrote:
> I have a omniORB server which also needs to read and
> write from an ordinary socket. I need to do this
> within a separate thread.
> 
> Can I simply use a pthread for this, or would this
> conflict with omniORB (i.e. because of thread unsafe
> system calls)?
> If so, how would I synchronise the access?

How about using an omnithread rather than a pthread?  The omnithread 
library is portable to some non-posix systems too, and it is the thread 
library used by omniORB.  It's quite easy to use, see docs here:

     http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/omni40/omnithread.html

Having said that, using a pthread should be fine because the omnithread 
library is basically a c++ wrapper for pthreads on posix systems.

Whichever library you use, the socket system calls are thread safe.

Regards,
Luke.