The race comes to wreak havoc only when wchar encodings are used between the
client and the server along with corbalocs. Duane Binder at Symantec has a good
test that reproduces this consistently. I will get his test case and attach to
this bugzilla. Here is the race

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TAO_InputCDR input_cdr (db,
                          flg,
                          rd_pos,
                          wr_pos,
                          qd->byte_order_,
                          qd->major_version_,
                          qd->minor_version_,
                          this->orb_core_);

  transport->assign_translators(&input_cdr,&output);
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assign_translators () can be called by two different threads at the same time.
Despite charectar set encoding rules, I can think of cases with corbalocs where
the resets can happen. To cut the long story short, there is a race. But the
problem is a lot complex. I am just not providing a solution for now since it
could be wrong.