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QuestionCatching exceptions in fire&forget tasks Pin
Bernhard Hiller14-Jun-19 2:58
Bernhard Hiller14-Jun-19 2:58 
Weekend is approaching, and in case you may feel bored without a complicated programming task, I have a puzzle for you.
I already asked at StackOverflow: c# - Logging exceptions in fire&forget tasks - Stack Overflow[^], but did not get a usable answer.

In short, I want to create a method which takes an Action parameter, fires off a Task with it, and makes sure that exceptions do not crash the application (but logs the exception messages so that I can find out that something bad happened).

I tried following code:
C#
public static void CreateAndStartTaskWithErrorLogging(Action _action, string _componentName, string _originalStacktrace = null)
{
    DateTime started = HighPrecisionClock.Now;
    Task task = new Task(_action);
    task.ContinueWith(_continuation => _continuation.LogExceptions(_componentName, started, _originalStacktrace));
    task.ConfigureAwait(false); // tried also without this line
    task.Start();
}
internal static void LogExceptions(this Task _t, string _componentName, DateTime _started, string _originalStacktrace = null)
{
    try
    {
        _t.Wait(1000);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Logger.LogError(_componentName, $"An exception occurred in a fire-and-forget task which was started at {_started}.\r\n" +
                                        $"The original stack trace is:\r\n{_originalStacktrace}");
        Logger.LogException(_componentName, ex);
    }
    // tried also without this block
    try
    {
        _t.Dispose();
    }
    catch (Exception dex)
    {
        Logger.LogException(_componentName, dex);
    }
}
Well, normally, it works.
Normally.
Not always...
And then the service crashes with an error entry in the Windows Event Log.
(That's also true for the solution in the first answer at SO).

Some more background.
The application is a highly configurable Windows Service. The function is called with Utilities.TaskExtensions.CreateAndStartTaskWithErrorLogging(() => DataStore.StoreSyncedData(data), Name);, where DataStore is set to a composite which in turn calls Parallel.ForEach(m_InnerDataStores, _store => { _store.StoreSyncedData(_syncedData); }); on its members. One of them writes a video with the Accord library, which sometimes causes an AccessViolation at <Module>.avcodec_encode_video2(libffmpeg.AVCodecContext*, libffmpeg.AVPacket*, libffmpeg.AVFrame*, Int32*), i.e. the exception may come from non-managed code. Perhaps 10% of these exceptions evade...

So my question is:
how should my function look like to catch those evading exceptions?

And extra upvotes if you can explain why my code (or the suggested solution at SO) fails.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!

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