Re: orbit-io-thread ?

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 16:58 +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
> 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.

and, BTW, we could always introduce the command line argument but keep
the magic string and emit a warning if there is a concern of application
compatibility. 

Is that a scenario that you could live with?

Best regards,
  jules