Re: Memory leak in java.lang.Thread ?

[Chris Pickett]

Jeroen Frijters wrote:

> Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > Perhaps we should add a comment to the Javadoc for Thread.java
> > like "instances of Thread are not garbage collected until either
> > they run and terminate or their ThreadGroup and all contained
> > Threads are no longer referenced."
>
>
> Agreed. I'm (almost) always in favor of compatibility with Sun, so
> adding a comment would be a good idea.

Just out of curiousity, is this the only example you can think of 
(besides creating threads in other ways) that creates a hidden reference 
to a new object?

Chris