[Mono-list] mono swallows threadpool exceptions

[Daniel Hughes]

upon further reading this appears to be the correct behavior. Although
it does not seem to be what is happening in .net I will need to do
more investigation it seems.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com> wrote:
> In trying to port our application to run on mono I have discovered
> that mono is silently swallowing exceptions. This is a really big
> deal, we expect these exceptions to bubble up and kill the
> application.
>
> There is not even any indication that an exception has occurred it is just lost.
>
>                public static void Main (string[] args)
>                {
>                        Action action = () =>
>                        {
>                                throw new Exception("this should Kill the process but doesn't");
>                        };
>
>                        ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(_ => action());
>                        while(true)
>                        {
>                                Thread.Sleep(1000);
>                                Console.WriteLine("wrongly still running");
>                        }
>                }
>
> The implications of this could be catastrophic. Imagine some code
> which performs a check, finds bad data and throws an exception.
> However mono swallows that exception so instead of the program closing
> it carries on running and uses the bad data. This results in sensitive
> data being lost. Or in our case a radio being bricked.
>
> Can someone explain why mono is doing this and if their is some
> setting / environment variable I can change to make unhandled
> threadpool exceptions terminate the process as is expected.
>