[omniORB] ORB destroy race

[Renzo Tomaselli]

Hi all,
   I'd like to know which constraints apply whenever the ORB is going to be
destroyed. It might happen that just before this some objects managed by a
servant activator are deactivate and placed on a background queue.
Then the etherealization of such servants would occur in a race with the ORB
being destroyed (and its POAs), so that I suspect some restrictions apply in
what etherealization methods can do meanwhile.
I know for sure that any loopback call doesn't work anymore, thus creating a
deadlock. E.i. incarnation of deactivated servants doesn't work, there is no
return from dispatch(). Btw, I noticed as this occurs when a servant is
deactivated so that its identity switches from local to remote; any further
contact is thus marshalled, even if the client is within the same address
space.
So the point is: do we need to perform any housekeeping *before* calling
orb->destroy(), perhaps waiting through a cond. variable until everything is
clean ?
Thanks for any enlightening,
                                             Renzo Tomaselli
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