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Thread's sleep method will result in un-runnable state?
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Kay Liew
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Joined: Dec 26, 2003
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I need confirmation on this. Somewhere in Dan's online mock, I ran into this question. Well, to keep the question short here is the version of it. Choice # 1 - The Thread.sleep method causes the thread to move to the Not-Runnable state Choice # 2 - The Thread.sleep method causes the thread to move to the Ready state Which one is the correct choice ? To me, Not-Runnable means dead and Ready means before the run method is call. I have chosen #2 because sleep will wake up and when it got up it will be in the thread pool and waiting for its lucky queue. While Dan's answer was the #1, which means after invoking sleep the thread is dead and while if a thread is dead it cannot be re-started. Thx in adv. k
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Anand Ko
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#1 is correct. Not-Runnable state doesn't mean dead state. After sleep time is complete, it will move to Ready state and will wait for its time for execution.
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Jay Pawar
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Kay, The choice 1 is correct because the thread goes into non-runnable state in the following instances
1> Thread is blocked waiting for I/O resource or the object's lock . 2> The thread's run method might tell to sleep for some time. 3> The thread may be waiting because the thread's method called wait() method.
So I feel, not runnable means Waiting/blocking/sleeping that is what Dan Chisholm meant too. Hope this helps ya.
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Anand Ko
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To add - if Thread is calling join on another thread, it goes to non-runnable state
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Francis Palattao
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Please correct me if I'm wrong is ready state and runnable state the same?
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Kay Liew
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Francis, That's what i thought. Runnable is the same as ready which waiting in the thread pool and gets it lucky queue. Further clarification on this would be great. Thx again. k
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