R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:
It seems clear enough to me that when a process terminates ("the entire Python
program exits") then all of its threads must terminate. That's part of the
definition of threads, to my understanding.
I think the confusion arises from the use of the word "deamon", which has been
discussed as a bad thing elsewhere in this tracker. A unix user would expect a
"daemon" to keep running in the background, whereas here it is exactly the
opposite. See issue 5906 for example, where in the context of Multiprocessing
it becomes even more confusing. Perhaps a similar note that 'daemon' does not
mean what it does in unix would be a good idea.
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nosy: +r.david.murray
stage: -> patch review
versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.4
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