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Expand Up @@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ You cannot recover from the exception in the `CoroutineExceptionHandler`. The co
with the corresponding exception when the handler is called. Normally, the handler is used to
log the exception, show some kind of error message, terminate, and/or restart the application.

On JVM it is possible to redefine global exception handler for all coroutines by registering [CoroutineExceptionHandler] via
[`ServiceLoader`](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/ServiceLoader.html).
Global exception handler is similar to
[`Thread.defaultUncaughtExceptionHandler`](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html#setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler))
which is used when no more specific handlers are registered.
On Android, `uncaughtExceptionPreHandler` is installed as a global coroutine exception handler.

`CoroutineExceptionHandler` is invoked only on **uncaught** exceptions — exceptions that were not handled in any other way.
In particular, all _children_ coroutines (coroutines created in the context of another [Job]) delegate handling of
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