Subj : Re: pthread function behavior in C++ program
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Sat Jun 11 2005 09:56 pm


David Butenhof wrote:
[...]
> But of course technically that's all POSIX -- and my expectations and
> prejudices. There are C++ people who argue that an unhandled exception
> should always terminate the process. There are some who argue that
> cancel and exit should not be "catchable" -- as Alexander points out
> this is what Linux currently does, with a "forced unwind" rather than a
> true exception. That is, it'll run object destructors, but cannot be
> caught. 

Well, it can be caught using catch(...), but not finalized. Under 
NPTL, catch(...) of "forced unwind" is supposed to exit with 
rethrow, otherwise they terminate the entire process. It's not C++ 
anymore.

regards,
alexander.

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