Ian Rogers wrote: > Some VMs require all Java threads to run upto a garbage collection > barrier before garbage collection can be performed. If a Java > thread never leaves JNI code then this will never happen and the > VM deadlocks.
Why not fix the VM? Real world applications are likely to have this issue as well, besides how is this any different from blocking on I/O inside a JNI method for a very long time? Regards, Jeroen
