I was looking through a thread dump of a java process, and notice some threads blocked by signal dispatcher.
What is signal dispatcher? What does it do?
See Question&Answers more detail:osI was looking through a thread dump of a java process, and notice some threads blocked by signal dispatcher.
What is signal dispatcher? What does it do?
See Question&Answers more detail:osI found an article about this on IBM developerWorks. When the OS raises a signal to the JVM, the signal dispatcher thread will pass the signal to the appropriate handler
Revelations on Java signal handling and termination by Chris White, Software Engineer, IBM