Name: akC45999 Date: 04/27/98
Description of java.lang.Thread.join() reads:
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Waits at most millis milliseconds for this thread to die
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I belive it should read:
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Waits at least millis milliseconds etc.
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This is why:
1. if the description were true, then a JVM could
wait zero time and still be conformant. Such implementation is useless.
2. No implementation can guarantee that a thread would resume execution
within a given period of time (one must add the time the thread waits
for a free processor), so the description is unimplementable.
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Description of java.lang.Thread.join() reads:
...
Waits at most millis milliseconds for this thread to die
...
I belive it should read:
...
Waits at least millis milliseconds etc.
...
This is why:
1. if the description were true, then a JVM could
wait zero time and still be conformant. Such implementation is useless.
2. No implementation can guarantee that a thread would resume execution
within a given period of time (one must add the time the thread waits
for a free processor), so the description is unimplementable.
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