Issue 1978:  COMM_FAILURE and completion_status (interop)
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Nature:  Uncategorized Issue
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Summary: Summary: Page 15-43 of 98-08-13:
 As Bob Kukura pointed out, COMPLETED_MAYBE could well be wrong. In particular,
 if the connection goes down in the middle of a series of fragments that
 make up the reply, or in between reads by the client of parts of the
 message from a socket, the client can actually conclude reliably
 that the status should be COMPLETED_YES.
 
 I would suggest to strike the last clause of this para. This would also
 bring things in line with the additions made to the exception section in
 the IDL chapter.
 
 

Resolution: agree to remove the last sentence of 15.5.1.1
Revised Text: :  Remove last sentence of 15.5.1.1. 
(note this has been done in the proposed resolution to Issue 1968) 

Actions taken:
September 18, 1998: received issue
March 8, 1999: closed issue
Discussion: 


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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:33:33 +1000 (EST)
From: Michi Henning <michi@dstc.edu.au>
To: interop@omg.org
Subject: COMM_FAILURE and completion_status

Page 15-43 of 98-08-13:

	If a client detects connection closure without receiving a
	CloseConnection message, it should assume an abortive
disconnect
	has occurred, and treat the condition as an
error. Specifically,
	it should report COMM_FAILURE exceptions for all pending
	requests on the connection, with completion_status values set
	to COMPLETED_MAYBE.

As Bob Kukura pointed out, COMPLETED_MAYBE could well be wrong. In
particular,
if the connection goes down in the middle of a series of fragments
that
make up the reply, or in between reads by the client of parts of the
message from a socket, the client can actually conclude reliably
that the status should be COMPLETED_YES.

I would suggest to strike the last clause of this para. This would
also
bring things in line with the additions made to the exception section
in
the IDL chapter.

							Cheers,

								Michi.
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