On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> P.S. I'm curious about the strange seemingly unneeded code fragments in
> FinalizerThread and both Runnables. For example:
>
> 169 forkSecondaryFinalizer(new Runnable() {
> 170*private volatile boolean running;*
> 171 public void run() {
> 172*if (running)*
> 173*return;*
> 174*running = true;*
>
> The FinalizerThread and each Runnable instance is only executed once. Why
> these checks then? Does anybody know?
>
I was wondering that too. A Thread is an instance of Runnable. So a finalize
method could re-exec the current finalizer thread on another another thread.
Paul.
