What is a daemon thread in Java?

java, multithreading

Solution

A daemon thread is a thread that does not prevent the JVM from exiting when the program finishes but the thread is still running. An example for a daemon thread is the garbage collection.

You can use the `setDaemon(boolean)` method to change the `Thread` daemon properties before the thread starts.

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