On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Romain Guidoux <[email protected]> wrote: > In the service's onDestroy() method, I have to wait for the end of the > worker thread, which has to wait for the queue thread.
Why do you think you "have" to do this? onDestroy() should not be "waiting" for anything. > I have thought about sending a shutdown signal to the queue without > waiting for it (no join()), but if the service is garbage-collected my > thread will be an orphan, so it is also elligible for GC. Active threads are not eligible for GC, as they are held by the OS. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
