Multithreading
Ajith Kallambella
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Posts: 5782
posted 16 years ago
This is a good question for the Threads and Synchronization forum and I am moving it there!
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ali farid
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Posts: 60
posted 16 years ago
A daemon thread is a low priority thread that runs in the background. e.g garbage collector
If you make a thread a daemon thread calling setDaemon(true);
When all the non daemon threads complete, the program terminates.
If a thread is a daemon, then any threads it creates will automatically be daemons.
If you make a thread a daemon thread calling setDaemon(true);
When all the non daemon threads complete, the program terminates.
If a thread is a daemon, then any threads it creates will automatically be daemons.
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