Re: orbit-io-thread ?

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 14:34 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:16 +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >What is the idea behind this magical string? Shouldn't we use an orb
> >command line option instead?
> >
> >Please yell if the following patch shouldn't be committed.
> 
>   /me yells.
> 
>   Whether or not to use MT-safe ORB should be under programmer control,
> not the user.  What happens if the user activates MT ORB but the
> application is not prepared to handle threads?  You get nasty bugs,
> that's for sure.

Not really a good argument. It is always possible (and I would say
prudent) for the programmer to scan the command line before calling
ORB_init(). That is really the only way to ensure that the ORB is
initiated with the exact set of arguments that the programmer wants.


-- 
  jules