* 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.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 4d284ccfdc68..63389867fed8 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -280,6 +280,11 @@ string int2String(int n);
 bool string2Int(const string & s, int & n);
 
 
+/* Exception handling in destructors: print an error message, then
+   ignore the exception. */
+void ignoreException();
+
+
 }