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Syamsul Hussin
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Joined: Feb 09, 2003
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hi, i was reading the API for thread. What is a daemon? how does it differ from normal threads? how can we use them and when should we use them? thanks
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Michael Morris
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Joined: Jan 30, 2002
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Hi Syamsul,
A daemon is a term we get from Unix. It is essentially a process that runs in the background unbeknownst to the user, like rlogind. A Java daemon thread is a thread that will not prevent the JVM from exiting when all the non-daemon thread are finished. For example if Threads A and B are non-daemons and Threads C, D and E are daemons and no other threads are running, when Threads A and B finish, the JVM will exit. I personally like to set all worker threads to daemons so that there is no chance that they can prevent the JVM from exiting.
Michael Morris
[ March 07, 2003: Message edited by: Michael Morris ]
[ March 07, 2003: Message edited by: Michael Morris ]
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