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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-05-01T15·16+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-05-01T15·16+0000
commitcbfac2fdccc83b04d9c2027e9e21070d4ac7c7e5 (patch)
tree9bff2f93fb123a3ad05bb3712e3d2a875c6da53b /src/libutil/util.cc
parent644946feed146396c00c288337bad26428970aa4 (diff)
* Set a terminate() handler to ensure that we leave the BDB
  environment cleanly even when an exception is thrown from a
  destructor.  We still crash, but we don't take all other Nix
  processes with us.

Diffstat (limited to 'src/libutil/util.cc')
-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc20
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index ae5af249203e..d61b35bdfbe0 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -444,7 +444,11 @@ void warnOnce(bool & haveWarned, const format & f)
 
 static void defaultWriteToStderr(const unsigned char * buf, size_t count)
 {
-    writeFull(STDERR_FILENO, buf, count);
+    try {
+        writeFull(STDERR_FILENO, buf, count);
+    } catch (SysError & e) {
+        /* ignore EPIPE etc. */
+    }
 }
 
 
@@ -545,8 +549,8 @@ AutoCloseFD::~AutoCloseFD()
 {
     try {
         close();
-    } catch (Error & e) {
-        printMsg(lvlError, format("error (ignored): %1%") % e.msg());
+    } catch (...) {
+        ignoreException();
     }
 }
 
@@ -968,5 +972,15 @@ bool string2Int(const string & s, int & n)
     return str && str.get() == EOF;
 }
 
+
+void ignoreException()
+{
+    try {
+        throw;
+    } catch (std::exception & e) {
+        printMsg(lvlError, format("error (ignored): %1%") % e.what());
+    }
+}
+
  
 }