From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-07-06T08:05:22+09:00
Subject: Re: thread mystery

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> i seem to always end up using to Queue with threads these days anyhow - 
> so i
> guess this is fine...

Yep. Thread w/o Queue for me would be like Car w/o Gas. Or maybe Car w/ 
$5/gallon gas.

> i suppose it makes sense that one shouldn't create threads from inside a 
> sync
> block since it uses Thread.critical inside and, therefore, must assume only
> only thread is running at times.  i wonder if there is a pattern for safely
> creating threads from within another taking into account
> Thread.critical=true...

In this case, though, Thread.critical==false while in the notify block, 
so it can't be causing this problem, right?

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