Thread state after it's initiator exits.

[Guest]

My main program starts a thread. My question is what happens to the thread
when the main program goes away? Does the thread exits automaticly with the
main, or does the main program need to make sure that it stops the thread
before it terminating itself?

Thanks.

Feng

 

[Armin Zingler]

My main program starts a thread. My question is what happens to the
thread when the main program goes away? Does the thread exits
automaticly with the main, or does the main program need to make
sure that it stops the thread before it terminating itself?

Why not try it?

Unless the new thread is not a background thread (t.IsBackground = True),
the process does not exit before all threads exited.

Details:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/terminating_a_process.asp


Armin