RE: Patch: Thread.holdLock implementation in java

[Jeroen Frijters]

Archie Cobbs wrote:
> That description is ambiguous. It seems to me that "spurious wakeups"
> are an artifact of certain programming practices, not the VM itself.

I totally agree with Archie. Good programming practices != VM spec.

Upon reflection, it might be best not to provide a Java implementation
of holdsLock, since it will never be correct. I, however, am forced to
continue to use my broken implementation :-(

Regards,
Jeroen