> 2007/1/11, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Another reason for hanging threads is that they wait in Thread.start().
>> When a new thread is started, it has to notify a lock object, in order
>> to signal the parent thread that it has been created. This notification
>> is sent from java code of the Thread before user code is executed.
Alexey Varlamov replied:
> IMO the problem is in this design rather than its impl. The
> specification for j.l.Thread.start() does not require that execution
> of run() begins strictly before the start() returned.
This requirement is implicated by specification of Thread.isAlive():
Tests if this thread is alive. A thread is alive
if it has been started and has not yet died.
