// Copyright (C) 2009  Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
//
// Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
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// PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

// $Id$

#ifndef __COMMON_H
#define __COMMON_H 1

#include <stdexcept>
#include <string>

/// An exception class that is thrown in an unrecoverable error condition.
///
/// This exception should not be caught except at the highest level of
/// the application only for terminating the program gracefully, and so
/// it cannot be a derived class of \c isc::Exception.
class FatalError : public std::runtime_error {
public:
    FatalError(const std::string& what) : std::runtime_error(what)
    {}
};

#endif // __COMMON_H

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