[c++-pthreads] Re: FW: RE: Re: I'm Lost

[Peter Dimov]

Dave Butenhof wrote:

> So, yeah; the exception is synchronous. Fine. But that's only the
> final, and least interesting, step in the protocol. Or perhaps that's
> just "least interesting" to ME, because "I'm a thread guy". ;-)

It is a very interesting step because that's what the thread sees, an 
ordinary exception, emanating from a function in the usual way; meaning that 
if the thread is already equipped to handle exceptions, as is the case with 
C++ code nowadays, it "just works". Which is nice. :-)