[rfc][icedtea-web] make threads in ResourceTracker's ExecutorService daemon

[Jie Kang]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> Sorry for delay. I sent it yesterday to wrong list!
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [rfc][icedtea-web] make threads in ResourceTracker's
> ExecutorService daemon
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:28:03 +0100
> From: Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com>
> To: Discussion of RPM packaging standards and practices for Fedora
> <packaging at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> 
> As described in
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-February/030792.html
> (long thread) javaws do not close. The reason is that the trheads in
> ExecutorService  are never shut
> down.
> 
> One solution is to make them daemon (attached)

Hello,


One minor nit:

+    private static class DefaultThreadFactory implements ThreadFactory {

I think the name could be more informative to what it does. Maybe call it "DaemonThreadFactory"?


Apart from that it'd be nice to get the opinion of others on this patch. :|


Regards,


> 
> I prefer  this solution above others described in the thread.
> 
> J.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Jie Kang

OpenJDK Team - Software Engineering Intern