On Behalf Of Michael Glassford Subject: [boost] Re: Re: future of boost.threads

I remember very long and involved discussions, but don't remember any consensus being reached or any resolution being found to the difficult issues involved. Am I mistaken?

Mike

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Are there any plans to support handling of exceptions thrown during joinable thread execution? I recall Usenet discussions with

"Slawomir Lisznianski" <slisznianski@asyncnet.com> wrote in message news:20040205190629.08537154D84@mail.messagingengine.com... proposals

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varying from Futures to throwable join():

try { thread.join(); } catch (std::runtime_error& e) { ... }

Any ideas?

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:59:03 -0500, "Michael Glassford" <glassfordm@hotmail.com> said:

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"Burc Arpat" <burch@stanford.edu> wrote in message

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There has been a specific group set up to discuss thread cancellation and exceptions w.r.t. std c++ on gmane. It is not straight forward is the overall impression I took away ;-) It is worth reading. Regards, Matt Hurd _______________________ Susquehanna Pacific P/L hurdm@sig.com +61.2.8226.5029 _______________________