Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?
From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-06 10:15:40

On 06/08/10 14:55, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> On 07/26/2010 10:11 PM, Anthony Williams wrote:
>> However, in practice it is not. I am not aware of any platforms where I
>> can cleanly catch a cancellation from pthread_cancel and translate it
>> into a boost::thread_interrupted exception. If I figure out a way, I'll
>> gladly use it.
>
> Since gcc4.3 (?) it's possible to do this:
>
> #include<cxxabi.h>
>
> try {
>    ...
>    ::pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
>    ::pthread_cond_wait (&condition,&mutex);
> }
> catch ( abi::__forced_unwind&  ) {
>    std::cout<<  "thread cancelled"<<  std::endl;
>    throw boost::thread_interrupted;
> }
>
> isn't this what you are looking for ?

On my linux system that aborts the program with "FATAL: exception not 
rethrown"

Anthony
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