[omniORB] Getting ObjectId when using default servant

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 4 December, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> In berlin, too, we use a couple of threads spawned by our own library. Yet
> we use 'thread ids' for every thread. We do it this way:
> 
> inline unsigned long Thread::id()
> {
>   unsigned long *_id = reinterpret_cast<unsigned long *>(pthread_getspecific(id_key));
[...]

That works for pthreads. Unfortunately, Windows has no equivalent to
pthread's setspecific/getspecific. It allows you to attach data to a
thread, but does not automatically delete it when the thread exits.

I'm afraid you'll have to wait for omniORB 4 for
PortableServer::Current.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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