Query about Daemon thread.

[Ganesh Prakhya]

Hi,

Can anybody explain me the difference between User Thread and Daemon Thread in terms of execution?

Thanks in advance,
Ganesh

[patrick J. d'cousta]

The only diffrence between daemon thread and user thread is daemon threads are for serving user threads.That is if all the user threads get over then all the daemon thread are terminated and application exits.

Example garbage collector thread

[Ganesh Prakhya]

Hi patrick J. d'cousta,

But, if I create an user thread and a daemon thread, what advantages I have with daemon thread over user thread? In otherwords, when we need to create/use daemon threads?

Thanks in advance,
Ganesh..

[patrick J. d'cousta]

Ganesh
Imagine u are writing a application where there are two tasks

1.Number of thread do some work and dump the output in a directory
2.One thread is supposed to run once a while and purge this output

1 are all user threads
2 is a daemon thread.

[Ganesh Prakhya]

Now its clear to me. Thank you.