Thread Code has me confused

[victor kamat]

public class MyRun implements Runnable
{
Object Lock = new Object();
int K = 100;

public static void main(String... args)
{
MyRun rt = new MyRun();
Thread t1 = new Thread( rt,"A");
Thread t2 = new Thread(rt);
t1.start();
try { Thread.sleep(50); } catch (Exception e) {}
t2.start();
}

public void run()
{
int k = 100;
synchronized (Lock )
{
if ( Thread.currentThread().getName().equals("A") ) K = k = 200;
System.out.println(k + " " + K);
}
}
}

The output is
200 200
100 200

This has me completely confused. The code is locking on the same object so why is the value of k in the second line NOT 200 as it is for K ???

[Henry Wong]

This has me completely confused. The code is locking on the same object so why is the value of k in the second line NOT 200 as it is for K ???

The lower-case "k" variable, is a local variable. Every call to the method gets its own copy.

Henry

[Sanjit Kumar]

Hi Victor, It seems you still have some problem in understanding of concurrency issues.

Every Threads share instance variables not local variables.So for thread t2 if condition does not get true, so small k remains 100 and since capital K is shared so its value got changed by thread t1. That's why you are getting
100 200 for thread t2.

[Sanjit Kumar]

Hi Victor, It seems you still have some problem in understanding of concurrency issues.

Every Threads share instance variables not local variables.So for thread t2 if condition does not get true, so small k remains 100 and since capital K is shared so its value got changed by thread t1. That's why you are getting
100 200 for thread t2.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No one is intelligent by birth