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[jira] [Closed] (KAFKA-516) Consider catching all exceptions in ShutdownableThread

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-516?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jun Rao closed KAFKA-516.
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> Consider catching all exceptions in ShutdownableThread
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>                 Key: KAFKA-516
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-516
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>            Reporter: Jay Kreps
>              Labels: bugs
>             Fix For: 0.8
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> I don't think there is any case where we want an uncaught exception to kill the thread. In fact this can be a bit hard to debug if an important background thread disappears. We should consider catching everything.

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