RE: [cp-patches] Patch: Thread addon for shutdown hooks.

[Jeroen Frijters]

Guilhem Lavaux wrote:
> While merging the VMThread model in kaffe, I've noticed that Runtime 
> does not check whether hooks had already been started when they are 
> being added. So I've added one small method to Thread and the 
> corresponding checking in Runtime.addShutdownHook. The error 
> reporting 
> has also been improved by providing messages to exceptions.
> 
> Comments ?

I think this shouldn't be necessary. If getThreadGroup() returns null,
that means that the thread was already started and has died.

Regards,
Jeroen