Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Freaky... I just posted nearly this exact solution.
>
> I have a couple comments. First, the call to acquire should come
> before the try block. If the acquire were to fail, you wouldn't want
> to release the lock on cleanup.
>
> Second, you need to change notify() to notifyAll(); notify alone won't
> cut it. Consider what happens if you have two threads waiting for
> keys A and B respectively. When the thread that has B is done, it
> releases B and calls notify, but notify happens to wake up the thread
> waiting on A. Thus the thread waiting on B is starved.
You're right. Thanks for pointing it out.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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