[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50198] Calling "error" from the GUI thread lead to segfaults

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #50198 (project octave):

>>  I still think it's odd to have "parse error" for any exception thrown over
octave_link, but that is a small price for stopping segfaults.

It is also odd to have the prompt, "octave:7>" displayed in the middle of an
error message. Ideally we would directly call "error" from the interpreter
thread. For this we could have "error" throw a special exception (say
gui_error_exception, in which arguments would be stored) when it is not ran
from the interpreter thread, instead of displaying a message before throwing
execution_exception. Then octave_link::post_exception could check the
exception type:
* gui_error_exception: retrieve the arguments and post error_callback, which
would run "error" with original arguments
* foreign exception: post rethrow_exception_callback

In any event we can't avoid the try/catch block around suspicious code path if
we want to handle foreign exceptions (see e.g. pipe execution error in bug
#53010).

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