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Re: refusal to quit

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On 9/1/2014 5:20 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> In one case it said that a Timer was still running.  I thought
> Timer.cancel would be sufficient to kill it, but apparently not.
> I gather it just stops the periodic calls to run, but leaves the
> thread alive.

Hm.

Here one thread is created per Timer and when cancel is called
then the thread is stopped.

What Java did you see that happening on?

Arne

PS: Timer has a constructor where you can specify the thread to be
     a daemon thread!

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refusal to quit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-08-29 09:56 -0700
  Re: refusal to quit Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-08-29 12:50 -0500
    Re: refusal to quit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-08-31 11:31 -0700
      Re: refusal to quit Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-01 17:14 +0200
        Re: refusal to quit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-09-01 16:37 -0700
  Re: refusal to quit Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-08-29 22:16 +0200
    Re: refusal to quit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-08-31 11:32 -0700
      Re: refusal to quit Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-01 17:20 +0200
  Re: refusal to quit Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-08-29 17:25 -0700
  Re: refusal to quit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-09-01 14:20 -0700
    Re: refusal to quit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-09-01 14:34 -0700
    Re: refusal to quit Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org> - 2014-09-02 10:49 +0200
    Re: refusal to quit Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-09-07 22:04 -0400
  Re: refusal to quit Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2014-09-02 12:17 +0200

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