Re: what is the technical reason why wait() is subject to spurious
wakeups?
apm35@student.open.ac.uk wrote:
On 28 Nov, 19:06, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
ap...@student.open.ac.uk wrote:
Does anyone know?
-Andrew Marlow
It has to deal with the OS interactions.
Hmm, I'm sure it does. I was hoping for more detail than that.
The book Java Concurrency in Practice has some good material on this
matter.
<http://virtualinfinity.net/wordpress/technical-book-recommendations/j...>
I see I am going to have to buy this book, right after I finish
reading my other java books (JSPs and JavaBeans). In the meantime
could you give more detail please?
-Andrew Marlow
As a favor to me, when you do buy the book, consider going through the
amazon link on that page :-) I get a small percentage. Unless you find
a much better deal somewhere else of course.
As for the reason of spurious wake-ups, I'll have to find my copy of
JCIP, I lent it out and now I have to track it down. I'll post the
answer once I read it.
--
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