------- Comment #14 from hhinnant at apple dot com 2006-11-01 23:33 ------- So swallowing a cancel-exception (in C++) is sometimes the right thing to do.
Imagine a thread pool executing a queue of tasks. These tasks can well have handles so that clients can wait/join with results in the future. Such results could be normal or exceptional. If you've got a hung task in a thread pool, maybe you want to cancel it. That means the task should end, but once the OS thread dumps the task, records the exception that ended it (cancellation), the thread should be free to get the next task out of the queue and execute it. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28145
