From: Caleb Clausen Date: 2009-05-31T01:46:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Runnin code at a certain time? On 5/30/09, Eric Hodel wrote: >> Is there some particular danger that Thread#run will be called on my >> threads without my asking? > > If it's library code, yes. If it's application code, probably not. Can you be more specific? I'm curious as to how exactly this could happen. I suspect you speak from experience, but I can't see how if an application fiddles with a libraries internals in this way, that's not considered a bug in the application.