exceptions and threads

[Greg Hookey]

Hi,
        I was wondering if someone could help me sort out a problem that I am
having with commoncpp2 on Debian Linux.
        I have an object, MesgClient, which has a connect() method.  The
connect() method attempts to spin a NetworkThread, which is defined as
follows (I have omitted the private declarations as they are
irrelevant):

class NetworkThread : public ost::Thread {
        
        public:
                
                NetworkThread( MesgClientI *master );
                virtual ~NetworkThread();

                virtual void run();
                void final() { delete this; };

                void requestExit();
};

The run() method of NetworkThread is defined as follows:

void NetworkThread::run() {

        ServerConfig config = mesgClient->getServerConfig();

        ost::InetHostAddress addr = config.getServerName().c_str();
                
        ost::TCPStream server( addr, config.getPort(), 2048, true );

        while( quit == false ) {
                // do stuff
                ost::Thread::sleep( 50 );
        }
        
        server.sync();

        ost::Thread::exit();
}

The connect() method of MesgClient is defined as follows:

void MesgClient::connect( std::string &serverName, short port ) throw ()
{

        serverConfig.setServerName( serverName );
        serverConfig.setPort( port );

        /* startNetworkThread may throw an ost::Socket *
         * if an exception occurs during networkThread->run().
         * The exception will be rethrown as MesgClientEx when
         * I get the ost exception sorted out.
         */

        try {
                startNetworkThread();
        } catch ( ost::Socket *s ) {
                std::cerr << "connect(): exception caught" << std::endl;
        }

        ost::Thread::sleep( 250 );

        if( networkThreadRunning() == true ) {
                startPollThread();
        }
}

        I have a test program that I run, that creates a MesgClient, and then
runs the connect() method.  I supply an unresolvable hostname to the
client in order to have the exception thrown.  Currently, when I run the
program, I get the following output:

MesgClient() created!
Aborted

        So, I am wondering if I am missing something here with respect to
exception handling here, or maybe this is a bug.  Consequently, if I run
the code with a correct host name, the program runs to termination and
exits correctly.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Greg

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