[omniORB] How to shut my Corba Server application in another thread?

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 12 March, "Len Holgate \(Mail List Account\)" wrote:

> I have a new problem now though... Since the server can now shut down
> cleanly, I thought I would clean up on my way out and unbind the naming
> contexts that I bound on the way in. Unfortunately I get exceptions thrown
> or an omniORB assertion going off when I try and unbind after orb->run() has
> returned due to the server shutting down. Is this expected? Am I really
> expected to unbind any objects that I've registered with the naming service
> in response to the method call to shut down (ie before the call to
> orb->shutdown(0)?) rather than being able to use a "smart pointer" style
> approach inside my server main()  ?

That is expected. If you have shut down the ORB, you can't use it any
more. It might be nice if the CORBA spec had a function to wake up
threads blocked in orb->run() without shutting the ORB down, but it
doesn't. It's not hard to implement your own concurrency control to do
it yourself.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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