Re: Using ReentrantLock
Arved Sandstrom wrote:
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
Roedy Green wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:53:12 -0700 (PDT), RVic <rvince99@hotmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
ReentrantLock lockObject = new ReentrantLock(false);
try {
lockObject.lock();
output.write(merchLinklengthBytes(response));
output.write(headerControl);
output.write(response.getBytes());
}
There is no lock protection here. The lock will always succeed since
no other thread even sees the locally referenced lockObject.
Yes. This has already been clearly stated by others.
Any kind of lockObject has to be an instance or static variable, or
else no other thread will see it.
Not correct. Local variables can also be passed on to threads.
I'm not sure what you mean by the latter statement. If you mean that if
a local variable is initialized by a shared object that all threads
accessing the local reference will be operating on the same thing, then
I understand what you said.
I was actually talking about the similar but slightly different
situation where the object are made available after assignment.
Object o = new Object();
something(o);
// now o could be shared among threads if the something made it so
Arne
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