[omniORB] non-threaded clients

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 11 February, Matthew Bettencourt wrote:

> I am doing work on an SGI and I have the need to have clients that use
> openMP.  Now, there is a problem with mixing openMP and pthreads on the
> SGI, i.e, it is not allowed and the code will die.  Now, is there any
> way to build omniORB w/o threads for just the client side of things?  

No, omniORB always uses some threads, to look after cached TCP
connections and things like that.

> I noticed that there are other threading specs in the omnithread lib. 
> Are there any others floating around??  Maybe one using semaphores?? (this
> is what openMP is using for its locks on the SGI) I guess I could write
> one but I am hoping to avoid that.  The other option is to replace the
> client side CORBA with something like mico.  

You could write a version of omnithread that uses openMP instead of
pthreads, as long as all the omnithread facilities are available or
can be implemented with what is available. omnithread is a pretty
simple thing, so it shouldn't be too hard.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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