Re: Memory leak in java.lang.Thread ?

[Chris Gray]

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 16:05, Archie Cobbs wrote:

> By the way this is a real problem e.g. in an application where
> you create a thread and then decide to start it later (or not)
> based on some last minute information.

One of of Sun's own APIs contains most of the right ingredients: 
Runtime.addShutdownHook() takes an initialised, but unstarted, Thread as 
parameter. Its complement, Runtime.removeShutdoenHook() has memory leak 
written all over it.

Cheers

Chris

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