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Subj : Re: pthread function behavior in C++ program
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Peter Dimov
Date : Sat Jun 11 2005 11:15 pm

David Butenhof wrote:

> But of course technically that's all POSIX -- and my expectations and
> prejudices. There are C++ people who argue that an unhandled exception
> should always terminate the process.

IIRC this is about unhandled C++ exceptions other than thread exit and 
thread cancel. The argument is that threads dying silently as a result of an 
unhandled exception lead to hard to find bugs (as determined empirically). 
:-)

Of course the whole point of thread exit and thread cancel is to make the 
thread die silently, so this doesn't apply to them.

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