[android-developers] Re: Stopping a long-running thread when a service is destroyed

On 4 mar, 20:21, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> Active threads are not eligible for GC, as they are held by the OS.

Oh ok, I did not know that, this is very interesting.

> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Romain Guidoux <romain.guid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do you think you "have" to do this? onDestroy() should not be
> "waiting" for anything.

Well, I did not absolutely wanted to wait in the onDestroy() method,
but I wanted my thread stuff to terminate in a good and safe state.
But now I know that a running thread cannot be GC, I have no reason to
wait anymore.

Thanks for your help !

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