Name: mt13159 Date: 01/30/2000


The current Java Language Specification definition of wait, notify,
   and notifyAll does not require that they be done within a "condition
   variable" paradigm. The requested change would be to require that
   wait be called from within a loop that tests for a logical condition
   variable, and that notify and notifyAll change the value of that
   condition variable, and that when wait returns the value of the condition
   variable must be checked to see that it has changed, otherwise the
   loop continues and the wait is reentered. A corollary of the requested
   change is that waits may return due to spurious wakeups, meaning operating
   system events unconnected to any action within the Java program.

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