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28 Mar 2012

Just a tips with grep

It searches recursively, ignores binary files, and doesn't look inside Subversion hidden folders.(...)

grep -Ir --exclude="*\.svn*" "pattern" *

24 Mar 2012

Daemon Thread and User Thread

In java we have two type of Threads : Daemon Thread and User Threads. Generally all threads created by programmer are user thread (unless you specify it to be daemon or your parent thread is a daemon thread). User thread are generally meant to run our programm code. JVM doesn't terminates unless all the user thread terminate. 

On the other hand we have Daemon threads. Typically these threads are service provider threads. They should not be used to run your program code but some system code. These thread run parallelly to your code but survive on the mercy of the JVM. When JVM finds no user threads it stops and all daemon thread terminate instantly. Thus one should never rely on daemon code to perform any program code. 

For better understanding consider a well known example of Daemon thread : Java garbage collector. Garbage collector runs as a daemon thread to reclaim any unused memory. When all user threads terminates, JVM may stop and garbage collector also terminates instantly.