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| author | Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org> | 2018-04-27 14:31:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org> | 2018-04-27 14:31:23 +0100 |
| commit | fc149b4eeb560286f4b54f53619b69089eeeaff8 (patch) | |
| tree | a237b7a346ebf7c6db550ee65451a903c8ecf2d3 /synapse/util | |
| parent | Use run_in_background in preference to preserve_fn (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'master' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into develop (diff) | |
| download | synapse-fc149b4eeb560286f4b54f53619b69089eeeaff8.tar.xz | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into rav/use_run_in_background
Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/util')
| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/util/logcontext.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/util/logcontext.py b/synapse/util/logcontext.py index c2edf87e58..bbadeec922 100644 --- a/synapse/util/logcontext.py +++ b/synapse/util/logcontext.py @@ -305,7 +305,12 @@ def run_in_background(f, *args, **kwargs): deferred returned by the funtion completes. Useful for wrapping functions that return a deferred which you don't yield - on. + on (for instance because you want to pass it to deferred.gatherResults()). + + Note that if you completely discard the result, you should make sure that + `f` doesn't raise any deferred exceptions, otherwise a scary-looking + CRITICAL error about an unhandled error will be logged without much + indication about where it came from. """ current = LoggingContext.current_context() res = f(*args, **kwargs) |