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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:58:14 -0700
Subject: Re: daemon thread cleanup approach
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Given the use-case (must shut down, cannot risk a hung process, orphan files
> be damned) I don't think having a daemon thread die because it raised an
> exception trying to access a missing global is a big deal.

It's certainly suboptimal. Subprocesses are better in every way.

-- Devin