Patch #550765: Add daemon_threads flag.
diff --git a/Lib/SocketServer.py b/Lib/SocketServer.py
index e1d5ecb..1928ad2 100644
--- a/Lib/SocketServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SocketServer.py
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
class ThreadingUDPServer(ThreadingMixIn, UDPServer): pass
The Mix-in class must come first, since it overrides a method defined
-in UDPServer!
+in UDPServer! Setting the various member variables also changes
+the behavior of the underlying server mechanism.
To implement a service, you must derive a class from
BaseRequestHandler and redefine its handle() method. You can then run
@@ -448,6 +449,10 @@
class ThreadingMixIn:
"""Mix-in class to handle each request in a new thread."""
+ # Decides how threads will act upon termination of the
+ # main process
+ daemon_threads = 0
+
def process_request_thread(self, request, client_address):
"""Same as in BaseServer but as a thread.
@@ -466,6 +471,8 @@
import threading
t = threading.Thread(target = self.process_request_thread,
args = (request, client_address))
+ if self.daemon_threads:
+ t.setDaemon (1)
t.start()