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[Kaushik Badiyani]

Which of the following methods will definetely stop a Thread from running
a) wait
b) notify
c) yeild
d) suspend
e) sleep

What will be the correct answer for above and Will certification test us on depricated methods???
Thanx
Kaushik

[Muhammad Farooq]

I think a , c, d ,e. The real test will not test on deprecated methods.
Anyone correct me if I am wrong
--Farooq

[Annie Naqvi]

Hi,
Well IMO the correct ans are a,d & e.As yeild may stop execution but that is not guaranteed.
I can't say anything abt real exam but will tell you soon after giving mine
Regards,
Annie.

[Kaushik Badiyani]

Muhammad are u sure of it beacuse i perfectly agree with Annie
Jane i need to know ur views on this question

[Adam S-R]

I agree with Annnie - yield will only stop thread from running if there is a thread with the same priority waiting to run - cannot yield to lower priority threads AFAIK.
HTH
Adam

[Muhammad Farooq]

yield() will definately stop the thread from execution and look for any other thread, if there is any other thread it will execute that thread, but if there is no other thread then the original thread will get executed. Here the thread will STOP, then check for another thread, if couldn't fine, execute the same thread, thats what I think.
Any comments,
--Farooq

[Anonymous]

From RHE

A thread that has yielded goes into the Ready state. If any other thread are in the Ready state, then the thread that just yielded might have to wait a while before it gets to execute again. However , if there are no other waiting threads, then the thread that just yielded will continue executing immediately. Note that most schedulers do not stop the yeilding thread from running in favor of a thread of lower priority.

[Muhammad Farooq]

I am sorry, may be I misleaded you ranchers. I think I have to read the question more carefully, as the question says, "methods that will definetely stop a Thread from running", yield() does not ALWAYS stop the thread .
--Farooq

[Ashik Uzzaman]

Yah Farooq, definitely was the word we were watching....
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azaman
[This message has been edited by Ashik uzzaman (edited August 19, 2001).]