wait()

Hey cowpokes,
Can you use notify() to notify a specific thread to move to it's Ready state from it's Waiting state? Suppose you have 10 threads waiting(t1..t10) and you want to move t3 to a Ready state. Can you do this?
Matt

Hi
Using 'notify()' method you cannot specify which thread should go Ready state from waiting state. this activity taken care by Thread Scheduler.
Thread Scheduler is Operating system dependent.
For windows 98 it will applay 'Time sliced' Scheduling.
For Sun Solarisys it will applay 'Primitive sliced' Scheduling.
Higher priority thread serve first. I think now you know how to bring Ready state your 't3' thread.

hope this will help you....
Regards
Satish

Hi Matt,
To add to the above posts; when you're using more than one thread use notifyAll(). You still can't guarantee which thread the scheduler will choose to run but at least all of them get to compete.

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[This message has been edited by Jane Griscti (edited November 01, 2000).]