[omniORB] possible bug found (was Re: spurious COMM_FAILURE when using fixed ports)

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2026, Michael Teske via omniORB-list wrote:

> If you start the server like this:
>
> ./cb_server -ORBclientCallTimeOutPeriod 6000 -ORBtraceLevel 40 > ior.txt
>
> and then
>
> IOR=`cat ior.txt`
>
> ./cb_client -ORBendPoint giop:tcp:localhost:53234  -ORBtraceLevel 40 $IOR
>
> ./cb_client -ORBendPoint giop:tcp:localhost:53234  -ORBtraceLevel 40 $IOR
>
> the second client will receive the  (MAYBE,COMM_FAILURE_WaitingForReply) 
> exception always.

Seems to work fine on 4.3.2 running on FreeBSD. I only had to change "localhost"
to 127.0.0.1 (but that's certainly not related...)

I believe on FreBSD USE_POLL is true, but of course the kernel is different.

Marcin
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