Finding Deadlocks
The Sun Studio Thread Analyzer is a tool that you can use to find deadlocks in your program. The Thread Analyzer can detect potential deadlocks as well as actual deadlocks. A potential deadlock does not necessarily occur in a given run, but can occur in any execution of the program depending on the scheduling of threads and the timing of lock requests by the threads. An actual deadlock is one that occurs during the execution of a program, causing the threads involved to hang, but may or may not cause the whole process to hang.
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