[omniORB] Lost one-way calls

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 22 April, "Neykov, Plamen" wrote:

> We are developing a distributed calculation engine and the problem occurs
> during the assignment of calculation tasks. 
> A coordination server, which knows the whole task is assigning pieces of
> work to the calculation servers which are ready with their prior task. The
> assignment is realized through a one-way call. Some of the calc-servers
> after completing the task don't receive the call from the coordination
> server, but the coordinator doesn't get any exception after the one-way call
> (we would expect COMM_FAILURE to be thrown). As far as we can see, some of
> the one-way calls are simply lost ...

Oneway calls cannot throw any sort of exceptions, so if they fail you
never get to know about it. In fact, there are no guarantees that a
oneway call will actually happen. That said, omniORB does try quite
hard to send oneway calls -- can you give more details about what you
are doing when this problem occurs?  Also, is there a good reason why
you're using oneways rather than normal operations?

Cheers,

Duncan.

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