rust concurrency_error ai_generated true

thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'a]scoped thread panicked'

ID: rust/rust-crossbeam-scope-panic

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83%Fix Rate
86%Confidence
50Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

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Root Cause

A thread spawned inside crossbeam::scope panicked, propagating the panic to the parent scope. Handle panics within scoped threads.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 87% success Use catch_unwind inside each scoped thread
    crossbeam::scope(|s| {
        s.spawn(|_| {
            if let Err(e) = std::panic::catch_unwind(|| {
                // thread work here
            }) {
                eprintln!("Thread panicked: {:?}", e);
            }
        });
    }).unwrap();

    Sources: https://docs.rs/crossbeam/latest/crossbeam/fn.scope.html

  2. 85% success Use std::thread::scope (Rust 1.63+) which has built-in panic handling
    std::thread::scope(|s| {
        let handle = s.spawn(|| { /* work */ });
        match handle.join() {
            Ok(result) => { /* success */ },
            Err(e) => { /* handle panic */ },
        }
    });

    Sources: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.scope.html

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Use std::panic::catch_unwind at the scope level only 65% fail

    catch_unwind on the scope catches the propagated panic but the child thread's state is already corrupted

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