Re: [Fresco-devel] Pinging stopped clients

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> So what can we do?  I don't think there's a way using CORBA to properly
> distinguish those clients that have fallen into a black hole and those
> that are merely stopped.

exactly, that is the point I was trying to make :-)

>  That leaves two options:
>   1) don't try; use some elaborate CORBA tricks to at least make the
>      server robust (timeouts, once supported; otherwise,
>      thread-per-ping or the like.  ick.)

a quite elaborate timeout scheme is included in a relatively new
'messaging spec'. See http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/col15.pdf,
I believe it's already implemented in TAO...

Regards,
		Stefan