Launching and managing unattended application programs

摘要

Provided are techniques for launching and managing an unattended application program. The application program is launched in background mode. In response to determining that an exit command has been received, an exit command indicator is set to indicate that the exit command has been received and a notification is sent to wake up a blocked main thread of the launched application program.

主权项

1. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by at least one processor to perform:
in response to an application program being launched in background mode at a start time,
monitoring an exit command indicator in a data store to determine whether an exit command has been received;in response to determining that the exit command indicator indicates that the exit command has been received, setting a terminate indicator to indicate that the application program is to be terminated; andin response to the setting of the terminate indicator, terminating the launched application program.