[boost] Re: Re: future of boost.threads (implementation)

From: Sam Partington (Sam.Partington_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-12 05:16:06

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:26:27 -0600, Brock Peabody 
<brock.peabody_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Just to prove to myself that I could do it I implemented a rough version 
> of
> what I was talking about.  I think the interface is pretty easy to use.
>
>    exception_transporter.h - non thread related tool for transporting
>       exceptions in a typelist.  Could be used for other areas where
>       exceptions    propagation is an issue.  Returns exceptions in a
>       variant so the user can    inspect or throw them.
>
>    thread_with_exceptions.h - used like:
>
>       thread_with_exceptions<exception_type_list, return_type>
>          t(thread_function);
>
>
>          //may propagate an exception from the list
>       return_type rval = t.join();
>
>    main.cpp - implements a small example.
>
> Does this seem like a reasonable approximation of what people have been
> asking for?

All looks fine to me, but without meaning to sound rude, what does it give 
you over the implementation I posted two days ago?

Sam