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What object do "static synchronized" methods synchronize

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Beck)
Tue Oct 31 21:33:02 1995

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 95 17:08 PST
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Bob Beck <rbk@ibeam.jf.intel.com>

I've verified that a method may be declared "static synchronized", and that
the synchronization works (ie, remove the "synchronized" attribute and it
races).  Now I'm curious: what object does such a method synchronize
against?  The class?
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