From 522a16311410304fcee50527056aee86cfeda264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viktor Klang <viktor.klang@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:54:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Adding support for daemonizing MonitorableThreads

---
 .../src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala  | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala
index d6d33255a5..b52e17d3a2 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala
@@ -151,10 +151,14 @@ case class ThreadPoolConfigDispatcherBuilder(dispatcherFactory: (ThreadPoolConfi
 /**
  * @author <a href="http://jonasboner.com">Jonas Bon&#233;r</a>
  */
-class MonitorableThreadFactory(val name: String) extends ThreadFactory {
+class MonitorableThreadFactory(val name: String, val daemonic: Boolean = false) extends ThreadFactory {
   protected val counter = new AtomicLong
 
-  def newThread(runnable: Runnable) = new MonitorableThread(runnable, name)
+  def newThread(runnable: Runnable) = {
+    val t = new MonitorableThread(runnable, name)
+    t.setDaemon(daemonic)
+    t
+  }
 }
 
 /**