out-of-process COM design

[Bill Medland]

On December 17, 2004 11:18 am, Mike Hearn wrote:

Thanks Mike

> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:49:45 -0800, Bill Medland wrote:
> > Does anyone know anything about this?  e.g. when starting a new thread
> > where does the apartment get initialized?
>
> It's supposed to get initialized in the call to CoInitialize[Ex] however
> the _LocalServerThread never calls this as it's an internal implementation
> detail of out of process DCOM.
>
> This looks like we haven't got the design quite right here, the
> LocalServerThread doesn't exist in native DCOM as far as I can tell
> so it may need to be replaced by something else.
>
> The code in StdMarshalImpl is correct, the problem is that the local
> server thread is violating the COM laws by using CoMarshalInterface before
> entering an apartment.
>
> For now, does this patch help?
>

Well, it gets me past the illegal memory reference; I can start looking at 
what else failed now.


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