[omniNotify] RE: [omniORB] omniNotify optimization when sender/receiver on same machine

[Rene Jager]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 16:17, Frederic Prin wrote:
> Yes... I knew my question was stupid...!
> 
> But I'm looking for an issue on a Linux RH  EL3 64 bits port that makes
> a 'receiver' programs (that runs fine on all my others platforms) not to
> receive anything that comes from 'sender' programs except those that
> runs on the same machine than the receiver runs on. 

if I understand correctly: it works when on the same machine, but not on
different machines? if so, please switch off the firewall ("service
iptables stop" as root) just to test if it works without the firewall.
Linux is sooo secure these days.... ;-)

> After investigation, the pb is located between the notifd (that can runs
> on any platforms) and the receiver program.
> Because, when compiling omniNotify2.1 I had to hack some files regarding
> LongLong support:
> - add #undef HAS_LongLong in RDIstrstream.h
> - replace CORBA::ULong ts, tn; definition by unsigned long ts, tn; in
> RDITimeWrappers.h for out_local() and out_gmt()
> - same replacement as above in RDITimeWrappers.cc  in fmt_local() and 
> 
> I suspect my hack especially regarding Long or LongLong management and
> Any Long and LongLong support, since I think that omniNotify uses a lot
> of Any for event data and filter management. But, in the same time, I
> had to do the same hack for my solaris2.8 64bit platform that works
> perfectly...!
> 
> I also suspect a mistake regarding little/big endian conversion on Linux
> rh el3 64 bits
> 
> Finaly I also note that the ./configure program do not recognize my
> Linux RHEL3 64bit platform (but succeed!)... And I don't know if it can
> do something wrong ?
> The fact is I had a lot of compil warnings regarding incompatible
> pointer assigment or somethin'
> 
> So If you or the omniNotify guru has an idea, an hint or a direction in
> which to look for something, I will really appreciate since I don't know
> what to debug....!
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Fred
>     
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Grisby [mailto:duncan at grisby.org] 
> Sent: mardi 6 juillet 2004 15:50
> To: Frederic Prin
> Cc: omninotify-list at omniorb-support.com;
> omniorb-list at omniorb-support.com
> Subject: Re: [omniORB] omniNotify optimization when sender/receiver on
> same machine 
> 
> 
> On Monday 5 July, "Frederic Prin" wrote:
> 
> > Strange and certainly stupid question:
> > Does someone know if omniNotify2.1 can work without notifd running 
> > when both sender and receiver are on the same machine !!?
> 
> notifd has nothing to do with whether clients and servers are on the
> same machine or not. They are all just CORBA clients and servers as far
> as it is concerned. You always need notifd, since that is where the
> event distribution functionality lives.
> 
> The only alternative is to link one of your programs with the omniNotify
> library, so rather than a stand alone notifd, you have it as part of one
> of your processes.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Duncan.