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Re: a simple multi-thread question

From Robbie Brown <rob@example.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: a simple multi-thread question
Date 2015-01-26 18:08 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 26/01/15 18:05, Robbie Brown wrote:
> On 26/01/15 15:55, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> On 1/26/2015 10:40 AM, John wrote:
>>>
>>> I am amazed at what I saw:
>>>
>>> synchronized private void print()
>>> {
>>>       System.out.println("printing A");
>>>       System.out.println("printing B");
>>>       System.out.println("printing C");
>>> }
>>> [... he gets interleaved output ...]
>>
>>      Each Java object has its own lock ("monitor"), independent of the
>> locks belonging to other Java objects.  When you call a synchronized
>> instance method, Java acquires the lock of the "this" object before
>> proceeding, and releases it when the method finishes.  If there are
>> several object instances floating around, there are several "this"
>> and several independent locks.
>>
>>> I thought the method is atomic.
>>
>>      No.  Synchronization is not about methods (or code blocks), but
>> about objects: You lock the *object*, not a method.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> If you have a class with two methods and one (or more) of them is
> synchronized and one (or more) isn't then a thread can obtain the lock
> on an instance of that class which locks out all other threads from the
> synchronized methods but the non synchronized methods of that instance
> are still available to other threads.
>
> At least that's how I remember it.

Ooops that should have read "If you have a class with *several* methods ..."


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a simple multi-thread question John <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2015-01-26 07:40 -0800
  Re: a simple multi-thread question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-26 10:53 -0500
  Re: a simple multi-thread question Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2015-01-26 07:54 -0800
  Re: a simple multi-thread question Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-01-26 10:55 -0500
    Re: a simple multi-thread question Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-01-26 18:05 +0000
      Re: a simple multi-thread question Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-01-26 18:08 +0000
        Re: a simple multi-thread question Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-01-26 17:19 -0500
      Re: a simple multi-thread question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-26 13:27 -0500
        Re: a simple multi-thread question Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-01-26 19:51 +0000
  Re: a simple multi-thread question Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2015-01-28 21:55 +0200

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