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Raju Champaklal Ranch Hand Joined: Dec 10, 2009 Posts: 521

another question from nikos

posted 12/28/2009 2:51:23 AM

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why is the output even coming? i thought after wait there is no one to notify the thread to continue

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Charles Chikito Ranch Hand Joined: May 22, 2009 Posts: 76

posted 12/28/2009 6:42:53 AM

Can't figure out. Btw, what does thread.wait() at line 18 actually means. Is it about asking the main thread to wait for thread created. If so, can the main thread be asked to wait for other thread? Thanks. _charles

Martin Sergeant Greenhorn Joined: May 20, 2003 Posts: 24

posted 12/28/2009 7:51:13 AM

I don't quite understand what is going on Calling thread.wait() will cause the main thread to pause until another thread calls thread.notify() As no other thread does, you would expect the program to hang This is indeed the case if wait is called on a another object e.g.
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will cause the program to hang A clue to what is going on, however is that 999999 is always the output, so the main thread does wait but only until the Job thread has completed. Therefore maybe when thread has run its course it may call notify on itself? Martin

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Charles Chikito Ranch Hand Joined: May 22, 2009 Posts: 76

posted 12/28/2009 9:00:20 AM

Therefore maybe when thread has run its course it may call notify on itself?

Notify on itself or main, because I guess main is waiting for thread Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks _charles

Henry Wong author Sheriff Joined: Sep 28, 2004 Posts: 16779

posted 12/28/2009 9:08:52 AM

What you are seeing is an implementation detail of the join() method, and is not guarantee to always behave like this. The way join() is implemented, is that it checks to see if the joing thread is alive, and if it is still alive, it will call wait() on the Thread object for the joining thread. To make this work, one of the actions that is done, when a thread terminates is that it calls notifyAll() on the thread object... so if you also call wait() on the thread object, just like the join() method, you too, will receive a notification. Henry

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