Re: Thread/VMThread proposal

[Brian Jones]

David Holmes <address@hidden> writes:

> > You may wish to check that a "stillborn" thread has a null thread
> > group after stop() has been called.  I did confirm already that
> > threads that run and are stopped are seen to have a null
> > thread group.
> 
> A thread is removed from its threadgroup only when the thread
> terminates. If stop() is invoked and the ThreadDeath exception is
> caught and ignored then the thread remains alive and is still in its
> thread group. Any behaviour otherwise is a bug.

This was in the normal termination case, didn't check ignored
ThreadDeath.

Brian
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Brian Jones <address@hidden>