New protocol for disabling exception suppression

[Neal Gafter]

Good point.  I missed that.

-Neal

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

> On 04/03/2011 10:11 PM, Neal Gafter wrote:
>
>> ArrayList.add is used to add suppressed exceptions but that is not
>> thread-safe.
>>
>
> but ArrayList.add() is done under a monitor on this or in readResolve ??
>
> Rémi
>
>
>  On Sunday, April 3, 2011, Rémi Forax<forax at univ-mlv.fr>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/03/2011 05:43 PM, Neal Gafter wrote:
>>>
>>>> The mechanism for adding suppressed exceptions does not appear to be
>>>> thread-safe.
>>>>
>>> Why do you claim that ?
>>> It's thread-safe like initCause is thread-safe.
>>>
>>>  Since this introduces a way in which exceptions used to
>>>> be thread-safe but no longer are thread-safe, this might require
>>>> significant nonlocal refactoring of existing code in order to use the
>>>> new try-with-resources statement.
>>>>
>>> Exceptions are still thread-safe.
>>>
>>> Rémi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>