[omniORB] omniORB 3.04 Thread-safety of CORBA structures

[Manning, Kevin J]

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Hi

I am having intermittent core dumps in some multi-threaded CORBA code.  

Essentially I have a CORBA struct containing a string and an any.  This is initialised globally, a collection of threads then take a local copy which is used in a CORBA call. 

I have not protected the copying by a mutex as my understanding is that a mutex is only required if some thread is writing the value whilst others are reading.   

1) It would appear that the copying of a read-only CORBA struct containing an any is not thread-safe.  Is this the case? 
2) In other words is there some shared memory between copies of the struct?

I am using omniORB 3.04.

Regards,

Kevin Manning

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