Re: [Libreoffice] Mutex(Guard) ignores failure to create/acquire Mutex

On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 01:57 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> Guards are used and badly abused in the code, especially with the
> infamous SolarMutex...
> anything that would make that code slower or fatter than it already is
> (with virtual functions and all), especially for corner-case
> 'you-are-about-to-die-anyway' scenario, is bad.

        Right - throwing exceptions - or annotating methods as being able to
throw exceptions for corner cases that are highly unlikely seems like
just adding unwinding bloat for no major advantage.

> so my opinion is, just let it be :-)

        Ditto; good catch though Lionel - great to have some scrutiny of this
sort of issue: no doubt there are plenty of things that can fail that
are not handled correctly currently, and would be good to improve.
Thanks for caring !

        All the best,

                Michael.

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