what is the technical reason why wait() is subject to spurious wakeups?

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apm35@student.open.ac.uk - 28 Nov 2007 12:24 GMT

Does anyone know?

-Andrew Marlow

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Daniel Pitts - 28 Nov 2007 19:06 GMT

> Does anyone know?
>
> -Andrew Marlow

It has to deal with the OS interactions.
The book Java Concurrency in Practice has some good material on this
matter.
<http://virtualinfinity.net/wordpress/technical-book-recommendations/java-concurr
ency-in-practice/>

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apm35@student.open.ac.uk - 29 Nov 2007 11:35 GMT

On 28 Nov, 19:06, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:

> ap...@student.open.ac.uk wrote:
> > Does anyone know?
>
> > -Andrew Marlow
>
> It has to deal with the OS interactions.

Hmm, I'm sure it does. I was hoping for more detail than that.

> The book Java Concurrency in Practice has some good material on this
> matter.
> <http://virtualinfinity.net/wordpress/technical-book-recommendations/j...>

I see I am going to have to buy this book, right after I finish
reading my other java books (JSPs and JavaBeans). In the meantime
could you give more detail please?

-Andrew Marlow

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Daniel Pitts - 29 Nov 2007 18:34 GMT

> On 28 Nov, 19:06, Daniel Pitts
> <newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
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>
> -Andrew Marlow

As a favor to me, when you do buy the book, consider going through the
amazon link on that page :-) I get a small percentage. Unless you find
a much better deal somewhere else of course.

As for the reason of spurious wake-ups, I'll have to find my copy of
JCIP, I lent it out and now I have to track it down. I'll post the
answer once I read it.

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