thread testing done flag
I haven't fully grasped all of what I've read about synchronized
access to data from threads, and haven't seen examples doing exactly
what I want to do. Can you tell me if this will work.
I want to have 2 threads, with one thread doing non-blocking I/O, and
the other doing other things. When the later thread is done, it needs
to signal to the thread doing I/O, to wrap it up and quit.
Would something like this be a problem:
class A {
private boolean done = false;
class B extends Thread {
private A caller;
public B(A c) { caller = c; }
public void run() {
while (true) {
// do stuff
if (caller.isDone()) {
// wrap it up
return;
}
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
B b = new B();
b.start();
// do stuff
done = true;
b.join();
}
// I think synchronized guarentees that the instance of B
// doesn't use a local copy of the boolean value
public synchronized boolean isDone() { return done; }
}
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