jbossas/jboss-as — pull request #531 by bobmcwhirter (2011-10-28 20:07:32+00:00)
Title: Start the thread in a new thread, instead of simply running its run().

Without this change, issuing :shutdown to a standalone process does
not completely shutdown, with threads a-lingerin':

https://gist.github.com/6bfc9d5349498c39ab37