Re: Thanks & request for info on solaris CORBA::ORBit problem

[Chris Mungall <cjm fruitfly bdgp berkeley edu>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> > This only happens if the client and server are on different machines. If
> > they are on the same machine, I can send enormous lists across. But it
> > seems that if IIOP is used, something is marshalled wrongly which
> > completely messes up the client (a perl client will go out of memory or
> > segfault; java/jacorb produces a hexdump), as if a length field is
> > getting corrupted.
> 
> This could be problem with the nonblocking write used in ORBit. We already had
> a bug there, which should be fixed. There might lurk another one though.
> Please try the following:
> 
> In src/IIOP/connection.c simply delete all '| O_NONBLOCK'. Then compile it and
> check, whether the problems still occur.

IT WORKS!!! 

Many thanks Sebastian.
 
> Alternatively you could add a printf after line 228 in the file
> giop-msg-buffer.c, which should read 't = writev(fd, curvec, nvecs);' and see
> wteather the problems coincide with that printf.
> 
> Bye,
> Sebastian
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