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| From | Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: refusal to quit |
| Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:25:36 -0700 |
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On 8/29/2014 09:56, Roedy Green wrote: > Sometimes programs simply refuse to quit after main has terminated. > > Sometimes the app is single-thread so I am baffled what it is waiting > for. > > Practically I can make things work by adding a System.exit(0) > as the last thing in main. > > However, I would like to understand what is going on. Is there a way > to shed some light on why a program won't quit? > Timers, Threads (even daemon threads sometimes although they aren't supposed to stop shutdown), EDT held on undisposed JFrames or JDialogs. Sometimes finding them all can be a pain. I pretty much don't use System.exit anymore so that I'm forced to find all the running things and shut them off so the program will quit. -- Knute Johnson
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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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