omniORB 2.8.0 Bug List

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The following bugs in omniORB 2.8.0 have been fixed.

Please note that newer omniORB releases may have bug fixes that have not been back ported to this release. If you think you have encountered a bug that is not listed below, it is best to upgrade to the latest omniORB release if you can.

You can get the fixes in 2 ways:

  • Update from CVS in the "omni2_8_develop" branch.
  • Download the latest source snapshot. (Note that this is generated nightly, so the latest bugfixes may not appear until tomorrow.)

Summary: System clock change causes the scavenger thread to consume lots of CPU cycles (bug number 13)
Date: Tue May 29 12:14:54 BST 2001
Fixed by: sll
Reported by: Peter Rönnquist
Link for this bug: http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/archives/2001-05/0195.html
Description: Scavenger now get the real time after each scan. This is to cope with the system clock set backward by a large amount. Seems to happen a lot to some system..

Summary: Hanging during boa->destroy() (bug number 12)
Date: Wed Nov 29 14:29:25 GMT 2000
Fixed by: sll
Reported by: Tom Gerke
Link for this bug: http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/archives/2000-11/0197.html
Description: I have a number of co-located CORBA servers which my application is using. I call boa->impl_shutdown() and then boa->destroy(). This boa->destroy() call hangs up for about 3 minutes before exiting. No exception iws thrown, and when it comes out, my application proceeds to exit normally. Remark: this fix is back ported from omniORB 3.0.

Summary: Race condition in object deletion (bug number 11)
Date: Fri Nov 3 10:28:33 GMT 2000
Fixed by: sll
Reported by: Dmitry Dolinsky
Link for this bug: http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/archives/2000-10/0206.html
Description: In a heavily concurrent server, deletion of a CORBA object may trigger a race condition that results in invalid object reference exception being thrown by the ORB.

Summary: Cookie was not passed to global exception handlers (bug number 10)
Date: Wed Jun 7 16:33:11 BST 2000
Fixed by: dpg1
Reported by: Duncan Grisby

Summary: Fixed interoperability problem with Naming service IORs (bug number 9)
Date: Tue Mar 7 11:27:46 GMT 2000
Fixed by: dpg1
Reported by: Duncan Grisby
Description: omniORB does not allow you to specify a naming service IOR which is derived from CosNaming::NamingContext in its configuration file.

Summary: create_union_tc failed if the discriminator type was an alias (bug number 8)
Date: Tue Feb 15 11:01:09 GMT 2000
Fixed by: djr
Reported by: David Riddoch

Summary: Server and client call timeouts are now disabled by default (bug number 7)
Date: Fri Jan 7 14:47:08 GMT 2000
Fixed by: djr
Reported by: David Riddoch

Summary: Name lookup error in inherited interfaces (bug number 6)
Date: Fri Dec 17 17:58:57 GMT 1999
Fixed by: dpg1
Reported by: Francis Michel
Link for this bug: http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/bugs/60.html

Summary: Applied performance improvement for Any (bug number 5)
Date: Fri Dec 17 13:27:16 GMT 1999
Fixed by: djr
Reported by: David Riddoch

Summary: Incorrect typecode for recursive sequence of objref (bug number 4)
Date: Tue Dec 7 18:08:27 GMT 1999
Fixed by: djr
Reported by: David Evers
Link for this bug: http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/bugs/59.html

Summary: Bug in marshalling/unmarshalling of arrays (bug number 3)
Date: Thu Dec 2 19:01:41 GMT 1999
Fixed by: djr
Reported by: David Riddoch

Summary: Assertion failure when the ORB cannot spawn a thread to serve a new connection. (bug number 2)
Date: Wed Oct 27 19:06:02 BST 1999
Fixed by: sll
Reported by: Sai-Lai Lo

Summary: DynAny no longer do alias expand on the typecode (bug number 1)
Date: Tue Oct 26 20:34:57 BST 1999
Fixed by: sll
Reported by: Sai-Lai Lo
Description: In other words, all aliases are preserved in the typecode.


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