Which thread will get the lock

Hi,

Let's consider a scenario. A thread is running the code blocks inside a synchronized method thus owns the lock of that object.now let say two other thread simultaneously try to get the lock but waits since there is already one thread is having it.Now the thread is done with the critical section and releases the lock.Which one of the two waiting thread will enter the critical section when both of the waiting thread is of same priority value.

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Arka

Either of them.
AFAIK at the end of a synchronized block all threads waiting on that block are woken and (assuming they are all the same priority) whichever one acquires the monitor gets to execute the code.

Tony Docherty wrote:Either of them.
AFAIK at the end of a synchronized block all threads waiting on that block are woken and (assuming they are all the same priority) whichever one acquires the monitor gets to execute the code.

Agreed. And they don't even have to be at the same priority. Thread priority behaviors are handle by the underlying threading system (for most JVM implementations), and there are a few reasons why the OS threading system may choose to run a lower priority thread over a higher priority thread.

Henry

The two thread will be waiting for acquiring the lock.sinc both of them have equal priority so anyone of them can acquire.here is a point.if the priority is differet by a small value 1 then even in that case jvm does not ensure that the higher priority thrrad will run

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Thanks Ritchie