I've been following this, it's very interesting, not a problem I've had but worth knowing about. If you've isolated this issue to this degree it might be worth filing a bug report about it.
On 07-Feb-2010, at 11:14 PM, Paul Sanders wrote: > If anyone was following / interested in this, I made one further discovery. > NSExceptionHandler delegates are not called if an exception is raised in a > subthread. Instead, the app just silently terminates. Worse, on Snow > Leopard Crash Reporter fails to kick in, so you don't even get a crash > report. Exit one (potential) customer. > > Fortunately, there is a simple solution: use NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler > instead. Although this disables the NSExceptionHandler delegate, that > doesn't matter because you can do exactly the same things in your uncaught > exception handler so all is well. You still need to call [NSExceptionHandler > setExceptionHandlingMask:] to tell Cocoa which exceptions you are interested > in, else you never see any. > > As per my previous posts, my app seems to run just fine trapping and treating > as fatal all exceptions (except system exceptions) in this way, with the > proviso that certain exceptions as previously listed must be silently > ignored. I sleep a lot better at night knowing that I will get a crash log, > rather than mysterious mis-behaviour of my app, if an exception is thrown > that I do not explicitly cater for. > > Paul Sanders. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org > > This email sent to r...@rols.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
