On Aug 24, 2013, at 1:59 AM, David <d...@dav1d.de> wrote: > Daemonic Threads often end with a segfault, so if your main thread > exists, the other threads will probably segfault.
By default, sure. But with daemon threads you really want to have some kind of shutdown mechanism inside a static dtor somewhere. The goal is more to have threads that don't implicitly block app shutdown.