Archie Cobbs wrote: > Interesting discussion, but really beside the (my) point. > > If "it's broken but it doesn't really mostly matter" then > it's still broken in my opinion. I don't presume to know > how or why other programmers may want to do or not do > some particular sequence of actions that trigger the bug. > > Of course, since the bug in in the API spec there's nothing to > actually do about this unless we're willing to rewrite the spec. > > Perhaps we should add a comment to the Javadoc for Thread.java > like "instances of Thread are not garbage collected until either > they run and terminate or their ThreadGroup and all contained > Threads are no longer referenced."
Agreed. I'm (almost) always in favor of compatibility with Sun, so adding a comment would be a good idea. Regards, Jeroen _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
