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Re: System.exit

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
> On 12/13/11 1:48 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> Roedy Green<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>  wrote:
>>> The docs say System.exit terminates the current JVM.  But it seems
>>> that when you have other threads executing, they keep on going.
>> Are you sure you really do System.exit(), rather than just
>> returning from the main() method?   In the latter case, all
>> those threads *not* marked as daemon threads keep running.
> I would think even daemon threads would keep running until the last 
> non-daemon thread completed.

You're right - I had actually intended to write:
  "... keep *the application* running."
Don't know, where those two words went... ;)

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System.exit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-13 10:48 -0800
  Re: System.exit Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-13 14:59 -0500
  Re: System.exit Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-13 21:48 +0000
    Re: System.exit Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-13 14:14 -0800
      Re: System.exit Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-14 00:01 +0000
        Re: System.exit markspace <-@.> - 2011-12-13 16:03 -0800
          Re: System.exit Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-14 00:13 +0000
    Re: System.exit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-13 16:53 -0800
      Re: System.exit Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-13 20:02 -0500
        Re: System.exit Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-13 17:51 -0800
        Re: System.exit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-14 09:38 -0800
  Re: System.exit Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-14 02:09 -0800

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