Terminal corba errors

Every so often the terminal comes up with a corba error "Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0", as shown in the image.

The solution seems to be to delete

rm ~/.gconfd/saved_state ~/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp 

And then to kill gconfd

kill gconfd-2

Seems to work for me, but I can't guarantee that it won't do anything nasty to your system.

Standards and headers

Every so often I encounter, or hear about, a problem with function definitions when the standard header files are included. Most often its mmap, but sometimes it's something else. Every time I think that I should write something up. Well, it's finally happened, a short paper on how to write portable code using the standard headers.

Standard header files

Interesting (but old) blog post about the standard header files included with Solaris.

Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 Beta Programme

Last week, we started the beta programme for Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3. You can participate by downloading the software and reporting any issues.

As with any release, there's a lot of incremental improvements wherever we find opportunities, and there's a couple of new features. The two most interesting new features are:

The Code Analyzer which reports possible errors in your application, both dynamic (ie memory access errors), and static. The static error detection is the newest feature, this goes beyond the compile time warnings or lint messages, and does much more detailed compile-time analysis of your code.
• Remote development on Windows. I'm yet to try out this feature, but the IDE has the ability to run remotely on a Windows box seamlessly compiling and running on a remote server. In fact the improvements in the IDE are well worth a look.

Some of the Studio team are giving a webcast on Thursday 4th August at 9am PDT.