[omniORB] Long running method invocation

[Mike Mascari]

I have a client which invokes a method of a servant which can take a 
long time to complete. The servant loops, issuing a sleep() and then 
checks for the existence of a file. If the file exists, it transfers 
the data to the client. I wrote it this way for omniORB3 before 
bi-directional IIOP to allow for use behind firewalls.

On some machines, this works fine. On others, with the same 
executable, it doesn't. I've printf'd it to see that the servant 
completes the method and returns, but the client never returns from 
the remote method invocation, as if it's stuck or a timeout occured 
elsewhere that prohibits it from receiving the response.

Neither client nor server use any -ORB option for timeouts.

I was wondering, before I turn up trace levels and log all activity, 
if this was a known issue? I'm running 4.0.3 on both client and 
server, and running the client under Windows XP, and the server 
under Linux 2.4.18.

Thanks for any information,

Mike Mascari