Question

ContentProvider 可以在进程间共享数据，内部原理是什么呢？和Binder有关系吗？

在Timer源码中用了一个final的queue对象做锁，这样可以吗，为什么？

	    private final TaskQueue queue = new TaskQueue();

	    private void sched(TimerTask task, long time, long period) {
	        if (time < 0)
	            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal execution time.");

	        // Constrain value of period sufficiently to prevent numeric
	        // overflow while still being effectively infinitely large.
	        if (Math.abs(period) > (Long.MAX_VALUE >> 1))
	            period >>= 1;

	        synchronized(queue) {
	            if (!thread.newTasksMayBeScheduled)
	                throw new IllegalStateException("Timer already cancelled.");

	            synchronized(task.lock) {
	                if (task.state != TimerTask.VIRGIN)
	                    throw new IllegalStateException(
	                        "Task already scheduled or cancelled");
	                task.nextExecutionTime = time;
	                task.period = period;
	                task.state = TimerTask.SCHEDULED;
	            }

	            queue.add(task);
	            if (queue.getMin() == task)
	                queue.notify();
	        }
	    }