Neil Richards wrote:
: I now notice that there isn't a bug in Java bug database exactly for the problem in Hashtable - though it's obviously related to 6934356, and to 4741471 (which removed writeObject() synchronization from the unsynchronized collection classes).(As in Vector, the problem in Hashtable has existed since 1.4).
I found it: 6927486: Deadlock in legacy Hashtable writeObject() All yours :-) -Alan.
