Re: gnorba stuff

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 1 Aug 1999 04:11:08 -0400, Mlacage@aol.com <Mlacage@aol.com> wrote:
>Dans un courrier daté du 01/08/99 04:03:59é), sopwith@redhat.com a écrit :
>
>> 
>>  Could you explain what you are asking here?
>>  
>>  Programs use the CORBA_ORB from CORBA_ORB_init(), and I'm not sure what
>>  more there is to it. :)
>>  
>When you don't understand somehting, you ask sometimes stupid questions.... 
>my case.
>
>BTW: if i understood well, /gnome-libs/libgnorba/goad.c, 
>gnome_server_activate_exe
>The pipe is created to get the IOR string of the newly created server back to 
>the goad so that the return value of the function is the CORBA_Object of the 
>newly created server.
>Now, why not simply using the name server to get the CORBA_Object of the 
>newly created server (which is expected to have registered) and forgetting 
>this pipe stuff ?

Because then we would have to sit in a loop polling the name server, which
would slow things down. It would also be messier to know if the server we
just started had died.

-- Elliot
Who me? I just wander from room to room.