[2423] in java-interest
Re: Loosing the user thread.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Sun Oct 1 16:34:11 1995
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 11:40:04 -0700
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: david@threewiz.demon.co.uk
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi David,
> My understanding of threads is that all user threads will run to
> completion before the interpreter exits.
True, unless they are daemon threads.
> I don't see this happening,
> in fact, unless my main thread does an explicit yield the user thread
> (and I confirmed this by printing:
>
> System.out.print("is daemon?"
> + Thread.currentThread().isDaemon() + "\n");
>
> Which yields false)
>
> Never gets run.
>
> The user thread waits accepting socket connections, so when it goes to
> sleep waiting for some business the main thread gets reawoken and I have
> to yield once again to get the user thread running.
>
> Would anyone care to explain to me what is happening,
Can you send me a simplified example? It sounds like there is something
else going on that is confusing you.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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