Threading Quiz
This is a little baby quiz on threading. The program below works… kind of. Looking to award points to the first person who can come up with the following:
- Without modifying the program on a Java 1.5 SDK, what VM argument will make the program never terminate.
- You can add a single keyword that will make the program terminate even with the mysterious VM argument. Name the keyword and show where it should be placed.
Good luck!
public class GuessTheVMArg {
static boolean foo = true;
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
while (foo) { }
System.err.println("Done!");
}
}).start();
Thread.sleep(1000);
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
foo = false;
}
}).start();
}
}