I still don't understand how it's supposed to work. Replace the line
'(OwnerTerminated) { return; }' with '(MsgToClient) { return; }', where
MsgToClient is an enum, still crashes gloriously with an OwnerTerminated
exception. Is there any way I can cleanly stop a thread without crashing?
On Oct 7, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> Eitan Frachtenberg Wrote:
>
>> N00b question: Based on the TPDL, explicitly receive()ing OwnerTerminated
>> prevents an exception from throwing when the owner thread terminates. Yet
>> this is exactly what happens in the following code:
>>
>> import std.concurrency;
>>
>> void thr() {
>> receive(
>> (OwnerTerminated) { return; }
>> );
>> }
>>
>> void main() {
>> spawn(&thr);
>> }
>>
>> Try to wrap the receive with a try/catch pair only causes a segfault, but
>> that's not the point anyway. What am I missing something here?
>
> You're missing the fact that I forgot to implement this feature :-) Fixed in
> SVN.
