Joshua Bloch said, "thread groups are largely obsolete.","Avoid thread groups!" I think it is not necessary to fullly comply with RI here ;-)
On 10/17/06, Elena Semukhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As everyone keeps silence, I'd suggest to change implementation to be bug compatible with RI. On 10/15/06, Elena Semukhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/14/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Elena Semukhina wrote: > > > Classlib test ThreadGroupTest.test_setMaxPriorityI() fails on DRLVM > > because > > > it expects behaviour that conflicts with specification. > > > The test passes on IBM VME and RI. The issue is reported at > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1625 . > > > > > > Actually there is a bug report in > > > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4708197 which > > agreed > > > that > > > this is a bug in RI and it should be fixed. > > > > > > Should we follow RI's behaviour and change drlvm ThreadGroup.java or > > should > > > we fix the test? > > > > I'm off-line at the moment so cannot look at the bug details. The > > question is whether fixing the 'bug' will likely break any applications? > > > This question was discussed in Sun's bug report as well. A JCK test > detected this bug. The first evaluation stated that "This is relatively > obscure functionality and it's theoretically possible at that changing the > behavior will break running apps." The second evaluation suggested to > fix the implementation rather than change the spec. The bug is in progress > since 2002... > > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > > > -- > > > > Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > > IBM Java technology centre, UK. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Elena -- Thanks, Elena
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