iPhone: How to Create a Daemon Thread?

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Published on 2010-03-13T12:22:13Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 13:15 UTC
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Can you create iPhone daemon threads programmatically?

I want to use a daemon in my application that runs in a background process and which runs a NSTimer that triggers a location lookup of latitude and longitude.

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