/* * Copyright (c) 2000 David Flanagan. All rights reserved. * This code is from the book Java Examples in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. * It is provided AS-IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied. * You may study, use, and modify it for any non-commercial purpose. * You may distribute it non-commercially as long as you retain this notice. * For a commercial use license, or to purchase the book (recommended), * visit http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples2. */ package com.davidflanagan.examples.thread; /** * This is a demonstration of how NOT to write multi-threaded programs. * It is a program that purposely causes deadlock between two threads that * are both trying to acquire locks for the same two resources. * To avoid this sort of deadlock when locking multiple resources, all threads * should always acquire their locks in the same order. **/ public class Deadlock { public static void main(String[] args) { // These are the two resource objects we'll try to get locks for final Object resource1 = "resource1"; final Object resource2 = "resource2"; // Here's the first thread. It tries to lock resource1 then resource2 Thread t1 = new Thread() { public void run() { // Lock resource 1 synchronized(resource1) { System.out.println("Thread 1: locked resource 1"); // Pause for a bit, simulating some file I/O or // something. Basically, we just want to give the // other thread a chance to run. Threads and deadlock // are asynchronous things, but we're trying to force // deadlock to happen here... try { Thread.sleep(50); } catch (InterruptedException e) {} // Now wait 'till we can get a lock on resource 2 synchronized(resource2) { System.out.println("Thread 1: locked resource 2"); } } } }; // Here's the second thread. It tries to lock resource2 then resource1 Thread t2 = new Thread() { public void run() { // This thread locks resource 2 right away synchronized(resource2) { System.out.println("Thread 2: locked resource 2"); // Then it pauses, just like the first thread. try { Thread.sleep(50); } catch (InterruptedException e) {} // Then it tries to lock resource1. But wait! Thread // 1 locked resource1, and won't release it 'till it // gets a lock on resource2. This thread holds the // lock on resource2, and won't release it 'till it // gets resource1. We're at an impasse. Neither // thread can run, and the program freezes up. synchronized(resource1) { System.out.println("Thread 2: locked resource 1"); } } } }; // Start the two threads. If all goes as planned, deadlock will occur, // and the program will never exit. t1.start(); t2.start(); } }