Re: sync on local variable

From:
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:50:29 -0700
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<RHOqn.156132$wr5.94333@newsfe22.iad>
On 3/24/2010 5:42 PM, Roedy Green wrote:

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:55:30 -0700, markspace<nospam@nowhere.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

If you later export that local reference to another thread or object, it
should be fine. It's valid to synchronize on a object that some other
part of the system will see later.


I have a JTable. I get a row put it in a local variable and
synchronise on that. Does that not lock anyone else getting that
row, even if they have nothing to do with my local variable?

  AppToWatch row;
  synchronized ( ALL_ROWS )
                 {
                 row = ALL_ROWS.get( rowIndex );
                 state = row.getState();
                 }
....
   synchronized ( row )
                     {
                     url = row.getVersionURL();
                     marker = row.getMarker();
                     }

I can't say for sure without seeing more of the code, but this looks
like a road to deadlock.

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