[omniORB] orb shutdown

[Luke Deller]

Hi Bjorn,

I am worried that you have misunderstood what happens when "shutdown" is 
called with the argument (wait_for_completion) being 0, so please let me try 
to clarify.

The argument to "shutdown" only controls whether the calling thread is 
blocked until the ORB shutdown is complete.  In either case the ORB will 
still wait for all requests to complete and then finish the shutdown.  Is 
this what you meant by 'graceful shutdown'?

Of course, the ORB should not be destroyed nor the process terminated until 
the ORB has fully completed the shutdown.  If you called "shutdown(0)" then 
you need to wait for the main thread to return from the "run" function 
before terminating.

Sorry if I misunderstood you.
Regards,
Luke.

bjorn rohde jensen wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
>  I know, it is not required to wait for completion
> of outstanding requests. It is a fairly brutal way
> to shutdown a CORBA aware application in my opinion,
> which can result in SystemException on the client
> side and potentially inconsistencies between server
> and client states. I do not think, it is all that
> much work to perform a graceful shutdown instead.
> A matter of preference i guess.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> Bjorn
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