Thread group disposal question

[Martin Buchholz]

Hi Artem,

Please read
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/misc/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html
The deprecated Thread methods are inherently deadlock-prone.

I don't know how AWT is supposed to work, but other folks
have had the same kind of threading reliability problems.
Perhaps someone from awt-dev would know better - I would try there.

Martin

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Artem Ananiev <Artem.Ananiev at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi, hotspot team,
>
> (I'm not sure if hotspot-runtime-dev is a right alias for the questions like
> this, but I haven't found anything better)
>
> my question is about the right way to destroy a Thread or ThreadGroup. In a
> few words, some application periodically creates and destroys instances of
> sun.awt.AppContext (which roughly corresponds to a ThreadGroup instance).
> After a small number of iterations application just hangs - the stack trace
> is attached.