Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.thread] Exception handling strategy ?

From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-16 16:20:01

"Emil Dotchevski" <emil_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Yet to be released Boost 1.36 includes the new Exception library which
> among other things supports transporting of exceptions between
> threads.

This is true. However, users need to be aware that there are currently
no mechanisms in place with the thread library to do this
automatically: if you want to transport exceptions you need to catch
them with boost.Exception yourself, and then transport them.

My futures library
(http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/threading/updated-implementation-of-c++-futures-3.html)
which is on the Boost review queue provides a packaged_task which can
be used with boost.thread to transport exceptions to the thread that
is waiting for the result.

Anthony
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