Re: Distibuted Objects: exceptions in remote methods

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, September 18, 2001, at 02:31 PM, Rene Cornils wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've encountered a problem when a remote method (called via Distributed
> Objects) raises an NSException. From my understanding, the exception
> should be passed to the client invoking the remote method. But the 
> server
> just crashes. I can't even catch the exception on the server by
> encapsulating the runloop with NS_DURING etc.
>
> Is this a bug, am I doing something wrong or do I have a fatal
> misunderstanding of exceptions in remote methods?
> Comments and/or suggestions are highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rene
>
>
> P.S. Sorry for reasking this question but there was no reaction on my
> first posting and I'm still stuck. On request I could provide some small
> example code.

Exceptions do indeed work as you describe.

I would suggest that your problem is most likely simply a crash rather
than an exception - so your only option is to debug the remote process
with gdb to see what is crashing.