Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: System.exit Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:59:25 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <9d7fe75jrjv74ksjprrmdca7mp8hb0sflh@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HSlJAUb3pGXi3i7ZL/HoAw"; logging-data="30189"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX191/okd7Ke3zHTPf9HvofDa" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <9d7fe75jrjv74ksjprrmdca7mp8hb0sflh@4ax.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Doa88+hBoUX+Zsu6yg8uu9OFr3E= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10709 On 12/13/2011 1:48 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > The docs say System.exit terminates the current JVM. But it seems > that when you have other threads executing, they keep on going. Evidence? Better, yet, SSCCE? -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid