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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: javax.swing.Timer blocking program termination
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:46:57 +0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 08:33:37 -0400, Jeff Higgins wrote:

> On 07/14/2015 04:14 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>>
>>      Evil or not, here I come.
> 
> Your discussion prompted some web searching - thanks.
> A couple of articles I found interesting.
> 
> Exiting the JVM http://blog.joda.org/2014/02/exiting-jvm.html
> 
> Know the JVM Series – 2 – Shutdown Hooks
> http://blog.yohanliyanage.com/2010/10/know-the-jvm-2-shutdown-hooks/

Thanks for posting that. The shutdown hooks look a lot like C's atexit() 
function: almost identical in fact, since they have the same limitations 
(not triggered by SIGKILL).


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