Re: [Classpath] Request for change to vm/reference/java/lang/Thread.java

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Stephen Crawley wrote:

> However, a problem arises in the way that Kissme creates the first
> Thread object.  Basically, we want to just use a regular constructor 
> on the Thread class.  The problem is that 4 argument constructor that 
> all the others chain to assumes that it can find the current Thread
> and copy its priority, thread group and daemon flag.  However, when
> we're creating the first Thread, currentThread() returns null, and
> a NullPointerException follows quickly.

Hmm.  In my project, I'm creating the Thread from JNI code, so its no
trouble to create an uninitialized thread object, set it so that it is the
value returned by currentThread, and *then* call the thread constructor.
But that said, I certainly wouldn't object to seeing classpath handle
the situation more gracefully.
  --scott

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