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Re: Loosing the user thread.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David George)
Mon Oct 2 23:13:44 1995
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 16:51:02 GMT
From: David George <david@threewiz.demon.co.uk>
To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Arthur,
In a sudden brainwave I saw the problem, a UNIXism had crept into my
code in the form of an explicit exit() at the end of the main body.
Presumably exit() does just exactly that. As you pointed out,
something else was confusing me.
thanks,
David
Begin forwarded message:
> > My understanding of threads is that all user threads
> > will run to completion before the interpreter exits.
>
> True, unless they are daemon threads.
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