> Even with thread identities, tools must register themselves with some > "session manager" that maintains the set of termination commands. And > again - the application must explicitly invoke the command endSession. > > Generally I would like to avoid this and rely on an active garbage > collection scheme solely. I think that daemon threads provide a general > solution for doing so. The question to me is if there are better > solutions. It would be nice to avoid the admin. But the burden of my message was that daemon thread do _not_ provide a general solution. They provide a convenient solution for a common special case, but then fail when you want to do something more elaborate (e.g. nested applications or nested daemons). It might be best to provide the convenient common case. But I wondered if we could come up with something more general. Simon
