Is it possible for a thread to Deadlock itself?

Question

Is it technically possible for a thread in Java to deadlock itself?

I was asked this at an interview a while back and responded that it wasn\'t possible but the inte

Answer 1

You write a thread which can receive messages from other threads telling it to, for example, terminate. You write code in the thread to monitor other threads and send them terminate messages and wait for a response. The thread would find itself in the list, send itself a message to terminate and wait for itself to terminate. If it wasn't written in a way which prioritised incoming messages over the wait state ...