Re: Help with Thread Sleep Calls causing lack of SLEEP

From: Jon Skeet (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:07:47 -0000

Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk> wrote:
> Are you sure you don't mean Thread.currentThread().sleep(3000)?

He certainly doesn't. sleep() is a static method. It's unfortunate that
Java allows static members to be accessed via references, but the above
does nothing different from Thread.sleep() - the current thread is
*always* the one which is set to sleep.
 
> Anyway, it sounds like you're using sleep for an evil purpose - i.e.
> waiting a random set amount of time for something else to finish - you
> should probably be using monitors or locking or something similar in
> this case.

Agreed. 

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