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Re: 5.0.3 -> 5.1 Remote Procedure Call troubles
| Re: 5.0.3 -> 5.1 Remote Procedure Call troubles [message #12334] |
Tue, 21 July 1998 00:00 |
steinhh
Messages: 260
Registered: June 1994
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Earlier I wrote:
> Maybe it's just me....or has IDL done something funny with the
> idlrpc executable from version 5.0.3 to 5.1?
Well, as I more or less expected, someone from RSI saw the
posting and went forth to investigate (thanks!).
The fix to get IDL to read the IDL_STARTUP file when initializing
server mode is quite simple (I'm quoting the message from RSI
here):
> As for the IDL_STARTUP file not getting read, this is due to the
> way IDL callable works (which the rpc system is built on top of).
> The IDL rpc server calls IDL_Init() with the IDL_INIT_BACKGROUND
> flag which prevents IDL from calling the IDL_STARTUP file. To get
> around the problem you are seeing, you can use the rpc source code
> in the IDL distribution to build your own version of idlrpc. To
> do this just do the following:
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> [] Copy the source code from IDL_DIR/external/rpc to
> a working directory.
> [] Replace IDL_INIT_BACKGROUND with 0 in the call to
> IDL_Init() in rpc_srvc.c
> [] Rebuild the server by entering make.
>
> IDL will now read the IDL_STARTUP file. We are looking into
> removing IDL_INIT_BACKGROUND from the IDL_Init() call for future
> releases of IDL.
And it works. Thanks again!
Regards,
Stein Vidar
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