Re: ORBit server question

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Michael Lausch wrote:

> I want to build a ORBit server which should support multiple clients
> and multiple objects per client. Is this possible? From browsing the
> example code on the redhat website
> <http://www.gimp.org/~imain/ORBit-GTK/ORBit-GTK-1.html#ss1.5> it seems 
> that the only thing to do is to use the same server address in the
> different clients.

yea duh

> Also is the ORBit server code thread safe? I'd like to make a MT server,
> becuase some operations can last quite some time, so the other clients
> will be not served during this time.

It is _supposed_ to be thread safe if you compile it with -D_REENTRANT in
the CFLAGS, but I have not tested it, and I can think of a lot of places
where it isn't thread-safe. Any help you can lend in this area would
definitely be appreciated!

For your specific case, you could just use oneway operations, which don't
have this "wait for reply" problem.

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