hs-comp: VM is not exiting

[Vitaly Davidovich]

Yes, that's true.  There's an object with a finalizer that sets a flag
indicating no more submissions are allowed, and wakes up the timer thread.
This Timer is static, so what's the implication of GC+finalization here?

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06/11/2015 06:11 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
> > The OS is waiting.
> >
> > This class is fairly bad, and should be avoided because the internal
> thread
> > is (a) non-daemon and (b) cannot be interrupted (it swallows IE and
> > continues).  Javadoc calls this out:
> >
> > After the last live reference to a Timer object goes away and all
> > outstanding tasks have completed execution, the timer's task execution
> > thread terminates gracefully (and becomes subject to garbage collection).
> > However, this can take arbitrarily long to occur. By default, the task
> > execution thread does not run as a daemon thread, so it is capable of
> > keeping an application from terminating. If a caller wants to terminate a
> > timer's task execution thread rapidly, the caller should invoke the
> timer's
> > cancel method.
>
> But the Timer should time out after 1 second...
>
> Andrew.
>
>