[omniORB] thread-sync issue on shutdown

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 3 May, henning.schmidt@philips.com wrote:

> Since I am still building up my code I am currently not doing
> anything with <myObj>. Instead I delete the ORB immediatley after
> the above lines.

[...]
> Now here's the thing: Every once in a while (roughly one out of two
> times) thread (B) does not arrive at point (b). Instead thread (A)
> catches <CORBA::BAD_INV_ORDER> in my above catch-block. But I also
> found a workaround: I can avoid the exception by letting thread (B)
> sleep for some time (e.g. 1 second) at point (a).

Surely the problem is just a race between the two threads. Thread B
manages to get to orb->shutdown() before thread A executes
orb->run(). run() therefore properly throws BAD_INV_ORDER because
you're calling run() on a shutdown ORB.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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