Just what the title states; the term appeared in ‘Java Concurrency in Practice’.
I assume it means that a clone may only be created within the thread that holds the lock. Is this assumption correct?
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A thread-confined object is one that can only ever be seen by the thread that created it.
So a thread-confined clone of an object is a clone that can only ever be seen by the thread that created it (the clone).