[Box Backup-dev] Current status

[Ben Summers]

On 13 Dec 2005, at 21:30, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:13 +0000, Ben Summers wrote:
>> Could we use a signal or something to throw an exception, and avoid
>> the whole polling thing?
>
> C++ language exceptions are synchronous exceptions, not asynchronous.
> Hence throwing one from a signal handler is incorrect.

Hmmm... I'm probably thinking of a Win32 feature which allows your  
functions to be called within the main thread as API functions  
return. So many OSes, so many APIs.

Ben