Re: Strange Socket problem
x wrote:
But, the volatile keyword does not provide any kind of access control. It just
tells the JVM "hey, if this variable is changed by thread A, the changed value
must be visible for thread B, so don't cache it too aggressively'.
It does more than that.
All writes from thread A prior to the write to the volatile variable are
visible from thread B after the latter reads that variable.
However I agree that multiple views of the same volatile variable introduce
danger, as in the idiom
if (volaVar != null)
{
volarVar.doSomething();
}
because there's a threat window between the conditional check for non-'null'
and the dereference to the method call where another thread could set the
variable to a different value.
There's also a threat when you use two volatile variables to control a code block:
if (volaVar1.equals(SOME_VALUE) && volaVar2.equals(DIFFERENT_VALUE)) ...
because 'volaVar1' can change by the time you test the second clause.
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