9463: Setting up the checkpointer thread as a daemon so that it finishes when the...

diff --git a/sdk/python/arvados/commands/put.py b/sdk/python/arvados/commands/put.py
index 4034173681503767d3ba45beb7da3ae940dbf237..1a274104fc76c5ec6449dee5b8387fe3d478170b 100644 (file)
--- a/sdk/python/arvados/commands/put.py
+++ b/sdk/python/arvados/commands/put.py
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ class ArvPutUploadJob(object):
         """
         Start supporting thread & file uploading
         """
+        self._checkpointer.daemon = True
         self._checkpointer.start()
         try:
             for path in self.paths:
@@ -472,7 +473,7 @@ class ArvPutUploadJob(object):
                     output = self._my_collection().open(filename, 'w')
             self._write(source_fd, output)
             output.close()
-            
+
     def _write(self, source_fd, output):
         while True:
             data = source_fd.read(arvados.config.KEEP_BLOCK_SIZE)