Pretty much. You won't die if you run over some synchronized code (like ConcurrentHashMap) but you do have to think about what's happening when you hold that l

Pretty much. You won't die if you run over some synchronized code (like ConcurrentHashMap) but you do have to think about what's happening when you hold that lock. From the mailing list it sounds like the plan is to fix this, I hope that happens sooner rather than later.