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Foil 8 Moving out of a Blocked State

From Java Tutorial 98- 4: Multi-Treading, Useful Java Classes, I/O and Networking NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
Thread Methods for Foil 8
1 A thread must move out of a blocked state into the runnable state using the opposite of whatever put it into the blocked state:
  • If a thread has been put to sleep(), the specified timeout period must expire.
  • If a thread has been suspended, someone must call its resume() method.
  • If a thread called wait(), then someone else using the resource for which it is waiting must call notify() or notifyAll().
  • If a thread is waiting for the completion of an input or output operation, then the operation must finish.
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