-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 May 2004 04:20, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote: > AFAIK, Java apps. should die when all non-daemon > > > threads have stopped (i.e. the GC can still be running, as its a > > daemon). > > Right, but we can't make all default threads daemons, or programs will > exit right away. The two non-daemon threads in a typical AWT program > are EventDispatchThread and GtkMainThread. I'm wondering if we should > make GtkMainThread a daemon, and have the exit criteria for AWT programs > be that all threads except EventDispatchThread are daemons, all > EventQueues are empty, and all top-level windows have been disposed.
Having a jvm-reaper check if no events are present seems like a design that moves the logic to the wrong place. Why not let the event-dispatch thread die when all top-level windows are disposed? - -- Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtZgiCojCW6H2z/QRAuRQAKDDpTi4TDY2Mt2ByeSUhBriILQd6gCfVynj gPBHDTjSC0wF/tVXboUn8+k= =jy+Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
