Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception

[Igor Peshansky]

Moving to cygwin-apps, as this is likely to get technical.

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > I've looked at this a bit.  Here's the weird part: the error says
> > "Uncaught Exception", but all the throws of that exception appear to be
> > properly wrapped in try/catch blocks.  So a simple "change exception into
> > an mbox" kind of solution won't work here.  More debugging is needed.
>
> The reason for the box is that the md5 checking was changed to run in a
> different thread than originally designed (now in the main thread
> instead of the download thread IIRC) and that thread does not have any
> particular catch handler for that exception, only the TOPLEVEL_CATCH
> which punts with the generic error.

Do you mean packagemeta::ScanDownloadedFiles() calling
packageversion::scan(), which calls check_for_cached()?  Then yes, this
isn't properly wrapped in a try/catch.  I'd like to verify that this is
the culprit (when someone sends me the corrupt tarball), but I think I see
a proper fix for this.  Will submit a patch shortly.
	Igor
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