Re: [Fresco-devel] Pinging stopped clients

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:46:48PM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> >More serious, though, is the fact that apparently, making a CORBA call
> >to a stopped process blocks indefinitely, with no timeout.  This is
> >kinda uncool, and I didn't expect omniORB to have this behaviour.  Any
> >ideas on why it does this?  Or is it the correct behaviour, and
> >someone can tell me why?  (And if it is, then how do you modify the
> >ping loop?)
> 
> why don't you ask on the omniORB list ?

Actually, thinking about it a bit more, this is almost certainly the
correct behaviour; Omni has no way to tell that the reason the client
isn't responding is that the client is stopped; for all omni knows,
ping() is just a particularly computationally intensive method, that
takes arbitrarily long to perform :-).  Sigh.  I guess we do need some
sort of Messaging extension.

-- Nathaniel

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