Re: Memory leak in java.lang.Thread ?

[Stuart Ballard]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:46:13 +0100, Jeroen Frijters <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think that to be strictly correct you need a phantom reference.
> Consider the following (pathological) example:
> 
> class MyThread extends Thread
> {
>   protected void finalize()
>   {
>     start();
>   }
> }

Wouldn't it be perfectly reasonable for Thread.start() to refuse to
start a thread from its own finalizer?

Stuart (who remembered to include the list in the response this time)
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