[omniORB] Call Timeout

[David Riddoch]

Hi,


In response to Gary's email (below) and a few other problems people have
been having recently, we've decided to disable call timeouts by default on
omniORB 2.8 and 3pre.  If you want you calls to timeout you now need to
set this explicitly using the API in include/omniORB2/omniORB.h, or using
the command line options.  Please see the user guide for details.

The change will be available in CVS from tonight.


Cheers,
David




On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Gary D. Duzan wrote:

>    Can we please disable timeouts on method calls by default? They
> are easy to overlook and I believe it violates the principle of
> least surprise to have a method call randomly generate a COMM_FAILURE
> when the system becomes a little slower than usual. While this
> might be reasonable behavior in, e.g., a client-server situation
> where the client or the connection is expected to be unreliable,
> I would expect a COMM_FAILURE in a fairly reliable peer-to-peer
> situation to indicate that something serious had occurred.
>    Thanks.