Java: How to distinguish between spurious wakeup and timeout in wait()

Question

Here is a case where a thread is waiting for notify() or a timeout. Here a while loop is added to handle spurious wake up.

boolean dosleep = true;
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Answer 1

I believe Locks and Condition will better fit your need in this case. Please check the javadocs for Condition.awaitUntil() - it has an example of usage