Use daemon threads for background tasks also in the threaded client

miguelgrinberg · Sep 6, 2023 · 5357808 · 5357808
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diff --git a/src/engineio/client.py b/src/engineio/client.py
@@ -253,7 +253,8 @@ def start_background_task(self, target, *args, **kwargs):
         on which the ``join()`` method can be invoked to wait for the task to
         complete.
         """
-        th = threading.Thread(target=target, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
+        th = threading.Thread(target=target, args=args, kwargs=kwargs,
+                              daemon=True)
         th.start()
         return th