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Thread state describes state of thread in given time.

Thread can have one of states at the time.

States are implementation/platform dependent, but basically all of this states are implemented on most platforms:

  • NEW A Fresh thread that has not yet started to execute.

  • RUNNABLE A thread that is executing in the Java virtual machine.

  • BLOCKED A thread that is blocked waiting for a monitor lock.

  • WAITING A thread that is wating to be notified by another thread.

  • TIMED_WAITING A thread that is wating to be notified by another thread for a specific amount of time.

  • TERMINATED A thread whos run method has ended.

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How to check if Thread finished execution

I have following problem: I want to check (C#) if a thread has finished execution, i.e. if the thread method has returned. What I do now is call Thread.Join(1), but this gives a 1 ms delay. Is there any way to simply check if a thread has finished.…
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Java thread state transition, WAITING to BLOCKED, or RUNNABLE?

There seems to be a discrepancy between SO consensus and nearly every Java thread state diagram on the Internet; specifically, regarding thread state transition from WAITING after notify() or notifyAll() is invoked... WAITING never goes directly to…
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Thread lifecycle in .NET framework

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Thread.IsAlive and Thread.ThreadState==ThreadState.Running

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async await: is the main thread suspended?

I was reading about async/await keywords and I've read that: When the flow of logic reaches the await token, the calling thread is suspended until the call completes. Well, I've created a simple windows forms application, placed two labels, a…
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difference between Thread state blocked and waiting

I have read the answer through the following posting: Difference between WAIT and BLOCKED thread states However, I am still puzzled. I want to know what is the difference on the JVM level and what is the difference on the CPU level. Whether both of…
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java threadump significance of "waiting on condition"

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How can I get the state of a program?

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mysql show processlist query shows state = null

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What does the java thread's state really mean?

I am learning the tool in Android Studio, get thread dump, as follow: I notice the different state of every thread like this, I can see there are runnable,sleeping,waiting. And I deep into the thread stack, most thread stack like this, "<61>…
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How to determine that a win32 thread is either in Wait or Join or Sleep state in c++

What I actually search for is c++/win32 equivalent for .net ThreadState Enumeration. Any suggestions?
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Can a java project with a runnable that runs at a fixed rate stop after a while? Mine keeps freezing after about 40 hours

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Multi thread worker thread status

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C# Thread's state and "Sleep"

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ThreadStateException c#

I have a ThreadStateException that i need to have STAThread... The problem appeared yesterday, I even ckecked previous versions from my git repo (which were 100% working) - now they're not. Code for main: [STAThread] static void Main() { …
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