Re: [boost] Re: Next revision of boost::thread & OS error code.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-10 12:27:45

"William E. Kempf" <wekempf_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> From: David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> What
>> information do you *have* at the point of detection?
>
> Depends on numerous factors, such as the platform it's
> running on and how much time you want to spend
> gathering information.  We could provide a stack trace,
> a memory dump, a listing of running processes, the OS
> name and version, and on and on.

Sorry, I meant what information do you have _portably_?

> This may sound facetious, but I'm frustrated asking the
> same question over and over again, and think this
> illustrates what I've been saying all along.  To
> restate the question one more time: "What's the minimal
> amount of information that would be useful and
> portable?"  Most of the above doesn't fit that
> billing... 

No, I figured if you told us what information you could get portably,
we could narrow it down from there.

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