Q9 page765, Threads : another possibility ?

[Rahul Sudip Bose]

Here is the question :

Given:

public static synchronized void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
Thread t = new Thread();
t.start();
System.out.print("X");
t.wait(10000);
System.out.print("Y");
}

This is the answer : G. An exception is thrown at runtime
And the book says why : G is correct. The code does not acquire a lock on t before calling t.wait(), so it throws an IllegalMonitorStateException. The method is synchronized, but it's not synchronized on t so the exception will be thrown. If the wait were placed inside a synchronized(t) block, then the answer would have been D.

Even if we make the above correction, is the below possible ?
The run() method of t contains nothing, so it can probably complete in a nano-second. Assuming that the jvm decides to move it from runnable to running immediately after start() ,
it might just complete before main can print X. Then we are trying to call wait on a dead thread...could that cause an exception ? If there is some misconception , please point it out.

regards
rb

[Deepak Bala]

Then we are trying to call wait on a dead thread...

You wait on an Object which may or may not be a thread. So its "running" state is not up for questioning.

could that cause an exception ?

What happened when you tried ? You can always join() and then wait on the thread.