From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: What's the deal with deadlocks Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:35:56 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <23020668-d86c-489a-988b-7b379f34851c@j13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:36:02 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="lDP3MNALQWyyfJ8GSfFWmQ"; logging-data="27020"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zuWJbwofECKAXAk30uXmnk3HmXRST/I8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: <23020668-d86c-489a-988b-7b379f34851c@j13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:nMKHtrRw+edCGvHINkh8tJfwjGA= Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3087 comp.lang.c++:3866 On 4/17/2011 9:15 AM, Joe Snodgrass wrote: > > The general concept is simple enough, but it seems to me that you'll > need special tools to diagnose this specific problem. How do you get > the debugger to look inside threads, see that they're hung, and find > out where the problem is happening? Do the debuggers have some > features that I haven't heard of? TIA. Probably. Goggle is your friend. Since you posted this to a Java newsgroup, I'll supply one answer on topic for that group: