[omniORB] OmniORB 4.04 windows bug !

[Harri Pasanen]

I'd vote for new release as well -- this kind of thing can amount to 
intense hair pulling if you are in a rush and just expect things to 
work to get on with other work...

Harri Pasanen

On Tuesday 17 August 2004 20:38, Renzo Tomaselli wrote:
> As it is now, there is no way to have it running stable on Windows.
> The bad point is that it seems do depend on local configuration
> getting socket n. higher or lower 2048. Far from predictable, thus
> I vote for a new release.
>
> Renzo Tomaselli
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duncan Grisby" <duncan at grisby.org>
> To: "Renzo Tomaselli" <renzo.tomaselli at tecnotp.it>
> Cc: "Omniorb list" <omniorb-list at omniorb-support.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [omniORB] OmniORB 4.04 windows bug !
>
> > On Friday 13 August, "Renzo Tomaselli" wrote:
> > >     ver. 4.04 cannot run properly on Windows.
> > > Methods SocketCollection::is/clear/setSelectable got a new
> > > initial test about socket n. not being higher than 2048 on
> > > Windows (sock >= SELECTABLE_FD_LIMIT). This test is new (not in
> > > 4.03).
> >
> > The intention of the new code is to make sure that the sockets
> > are actually selectable, otherwise you can end up waiting for
> > ever for an event to occur.
> >
> > The problem is that Windows fd_sets work completely differently
> > from Unix ones, so the new code broke on Windows. On Windows,
> > FD_SETSIZE is the number of sockets that can be stored in the
> > set; on Unix, it's the highest socket number that can be stored.
> >
> > I've fixed the code in CVS so it doesn't do the check on Windows.
> > The question now is whether that warrants doing a new full
> > release. What does everyone on the list think?  Is it worth doing
> > 4.0.5 just for this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Duncan.
> >
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