Threading question

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <pomB6.155663$m04.6323628 at e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>,
Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
>I don't use threads much myself, but the docs suggest the statement you
>quote only *creates* a thread, and that you will have to call its run()
>method to start it executing. This would, I presume, require
>
>tmp.run()

NO!  DON'T DO THAT!  You need to call the start() method.
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