When a thread starts, who decides the status of thread; whether it is alive or dead?
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When a thread starts, who decides the status of thread; whether it is alive or dead?
You haven’t said, but I’m assuming that you’re referring to the Thread.IsAlive property in .NET.
This property is set automatically by the framework itself. Basically, when you go
Thread.Start(), the framework runs a bit of code that sets up the thread to be ready to run (including settingIsAlivetotrue), opens atry...catchblock and calls your delegate. When your delegate returns (or an exception is thrown) there is more code inside the framework that executes to tear down the thread (and setIsAlivetofalse).