Greg Merrill greghmerrill
greghmerrill
/ StopThreadWhileAcquiringLock.java
Created
August 31, 2011 13:46
Illustrates the fact that Thread.stop() won't immediately stop a Thread which is waiting to acquire a lock
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| /** | |
| This illustrates the fact that calling stop() on a Thread | |
| won't stop the Thread if it's waiting on a monitor. | |
| The output I get is: | |
| Thread t1 acquiring lock | |
| Thread t1 has lock | |
| Thread t2 acquiring lock | |
| ...waits forever... |