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authorRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2018-04-27 14:18:00 +0100
committerRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2018-04-27 14:18:00 +0100
commit61463323871ccbe17f8933c1695d7901cd6a8a20 (patch)
treed70648dd1b7466452da27a4b7d8993c58481ed03 /synapse/util
parentMerge branch 'develop' into rav/deferred_timeout (diff)
parentMerge branch 'master' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into develop (diff)
downloadsynapse-61463323871ccbe17f8933c1695d7901cd6a8a20.tar.xz
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into rav/deferred_timeout
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-rw-r--r--synapse/util/logcontext.py7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/util/logcontext.py b/synapse/util/logcontext.py
index d59adc236e..d6587e4409 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)