Re: [Caml-list] Has the thread cancellation problem evolved ?

[Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>]

Gordon Henriksen wrote:

>
> Such problems are too common to ignore. .NET defuses them by treating  
> ThreadAbortException specially.
>
> “When a call is made to the Abort method to destroy a thread, the  
> common language runtime throws a ThreadAbortException.  
> ThreadAbortException is a special exception that can be caught, but  
> it will automatically be raised again at the end of the catch block.  
> When this exception is raised, the runtime executes all the finally  
> blocks before ending the thread. Since the thread can do an unbounded  
> computation in the finally blocks, or call Thread.ResetAbort to  
> cancel the abort, there is no guarantee that the thread will ever end.”
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ 
> system.threading.threadabortexception.aspx


So what happens if I throw an infinite loop into an exception handler?

Brian