Github user aarondav commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/639#issuecomment-42705008
@markhamstra Further testing (test code
[here](https://gist.github.com/aarondav/ca1f0cdcd50727f89c0d)) seems to
indicate that the uncaughtExceptionHandler is **not** called in any of these
cases:
- Error in actor receive (causes a LocalActorRefProvider guardian failure
and shuts down the system)
- Error in scheduler (special TaskInvocation logic seems to catch this)
- Error in future using actor's context.dispatcher (not propagated anywhere
I can see)
The last one was especially surprising, but further investigation indicates
that the ExecutionContext in context.dispatcher is unrelated to the
ThreadFactory. Custom specification of a default ExecutionContext was added in
Akka 2.3.0 version
(https://github.com/akka/akka/commit/4b2d98c5cbf4bccb2de34e26f009510a98f725a0).
TL;DR It's pretty hard to get a custom exception handler that logs any
errors in Akka-related threads.
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