RE: JavaMemoryModel: Proposals on wait and interrupts

From: David Holmes (dholmes@dltech.com.au)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 06:43:14 EDT


Miles Sabin wrote:
> The conclusion I came to later was that interruption was
> inadequate for reliable handling of cancellation because a thread's
> interrupt status can be modified unpredictably, eg. _any_ holder of
a
> reference to the thread running the cancellable activity can set or
clear
> the thread's interrupt status

Nitpick. That's not quite true. Anyone with a reference and the right
permission can set the interrupt state, but only the thread can clear
its own interrupt state. This latter fact is important for adding
sanity to the interruption process otherwise it would be completely
unworkable.

David Holmes

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