Stop the Thread

[Roger Zhao]

Hi,all,here are two questions about stop thread,
[Q1]Which two can directly cause a thread to stop executing? (Choose Two)
A. Exiting from a synchronized block.
B. Calling the wait method on an object.
C. Calling the notify method on an object.
D. Calling the notifyAll method on an object.
E. Calling the setPriority method on a thread object.
choose BE
"Stop" here means blocked, right? B is correct.
What about setPriority happend on stoping action???
[Q2]
Which two CANNOT directly cause a thread to stop executing? (Choose Two)
A.Calling the yield method
B.Calling the wait method on an object
C.Calling the notify method on an object
D.Calling the Notify All method on an object
E.Calling the start method on another Thread object
choose A.E
Yield method causes the thread from running to ready.
E is nothing to do to stop currect thread executing.
Who give me a clear about BCD for this question?
Thanks a lot,
Roger

[Hanna Habashy]

hi Roger:
Q1- setPriority method in a thread Object will usually make the lower priority running thread bumped back and the highest priority thrad will be chosen to run. but there is no guarantee.
Q2- wait() when invoked on an object, the thread excuting that code give up its lock IMMEDIATELY.
notify() and notifyAll() doesn't not guarantee that the thread will give up the lock immediately.

[Roger Zhao]

So,what is the right answer for the question above?

[Vicken Karaoghlanian]

hi roger,
about your first question i believe you are right, the answers are B & E although i can't quite explain the choice E. i solved it simply because the other choices doesn't make sense.
i have doubts about the answers you've provided for Q2, i'll go with C & D because:
A) yield is a static method when executed will pause/stop the current thread and choose another one from the waiting list.
B)wait() will cause the current thread to stop executing until the object that wait() executed on finishes.
E) calling the start method on any other thread will put that thread in the runnable state.
therfore i do believe the answers are C & D.
i am not sure about my answers, if somebody doesn't agree please explain.
Hope this helps.

[Maulin Vasavada]

Hi Vicken
I agree with Hanna's explaination about the Q2 answer and that seems clear to me. The question asks "which CAN NOT directly stop" and as per Hanna pointed, notify() and notifyAll() doesn't GUARANTEE to stop the thread. It may or may not. So, we can't say for certain that "it can't directly stop" as it "may". You know what I mean?
Now, for the 1st question's option E- setPriority() method will change the priority of a thread and that causes the system to reconsider the thread execution depending upon the thread scheduling policy. In order to do that system has to stop execution of that thread. Its like if we are shifted from developer's position to manager's we will have to put stop on pure developer mindset and start focus on manager mindset and that causes us to 'stop' for a while
Regards
Maulin