Re: [boost] [boost thread] Catching interrupted exception?

Subject: Re: [boost] [boost thread] Catching interrupted exception?
From: Rob Stewart (robertstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-31 16:47:34

On Jul 31, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Philip Bennefall <philip_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I am making fairly heavy use of the interrupt method call of the thread class, and I am wondering whether I should be catching the boost::thread_interrupted exception from within my thread function? I currently do not and my program runs fine, but I am wondering whether this is defined behavior or whether I should always be catching the exception and returning from the function inside the handler?

If you don't need to react to the interruption, what you're doing is just fine.

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Rob

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