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synchronized & Monitors — intrinsic locks, owner/entry set/wait set, reentrant semantics
Tests whether you know the monitor model precisely -- one thread owns the lock at a time, other lock-seekers queue in the entry set, threads that called wait() move to the wait set until notified, and the owning thread can re-acquire its own lock without blocking, which is what makes nested synchronized calls on the same object safe.
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