From 9d7aa2c51f0225832deb4a03d278e12653f36b98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrod Johnon <jjohnson2@lenovo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:30:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent control thread from blocking exit

If a control socket was created, exit() would block due to the non-daemon thread.
 Mark the thread as daemon to allow for unclean shutdown.
---
 confluent_client/confluent/termhandler.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/confluent_client/confluent/termhandler.py b/confluent_client/confluent/termhandler.py
index 986b2229..c628a0dd 100644
--- a/confluent_client/confluent/termhandler.py
+++ b/confluent_client/confluent/termhandler.py
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ class TermHandler(object):
         atexit.register(self.shutdown)
         self.socket.bind(path)
         os.chmod(path, stat.S_IWUSR | stat.S_IRUSR)
-        threading.Thread(target=self.sockinteract).start()
+        th = threading.Thread(target=self.sockinteract)
+        th.daemon = True
+        th.start()
 
     def shutdown(self):
         try: