Comment 1 for bug 405732

Hi! This is actually not a bug, this is the desired behavior. In order for clients to get exceptions, the client must send a OPTION_REQ packet with the "exceptions" option. This is currently deprecated and provided by the job server only for backwards compatibility with the Perl server. If you would like to send and receive exceptions, consider using a combination of WORK_WARNING and WORK_FAIL messages, since these will be a bit more portable. The protocol document describes this behavior:

http://gearman.org/index.php?id=protocol