Should System.exit be controlled by a Scope Local?

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/1/22 18:17, Sean Mullan wrote:
> Can you explain in a little more detail as to what the compatibility
> issues are with preventing threads in thread pools from calling System.exit?

It is possible, I suppose, that some rather odd programmer is using
a task in a thread pool to exit their program. I know, unlikely, but
we preserve compatibility.

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