On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:18 PM Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We're currently looking into adjusting the current Executor implementation
> (for both TPE and PPE) to not use daemon threads at all for subinterpreter
> compatibility, see https://bugs.python.org/issue39812. Instead of using
> an atexit handler, there's some consideration for using a similar
> threading-specific "exit handler". Instead of being upon program exit,
> registered functions would be called just before all of the non-daemon
> threads are joined in `threading._shutdown()`.
>
> As a result, I suspect that we are unlikely to implement something like
> the above. But, as a convenient side effect, it should somewhat address the
> current potentially surprising behavior.
>

There might still be some fun involved given that current implementation
*might* lazy-spawn threads upon submit.
This means that if a ThreadExecutor is called from both daemon and
non-daemon threads (which is a very bad idea though), the kind of spawned
threads might be unpredictable.
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