on the bank, and of having nothing to do:  once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'

  So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether

   * been interrupted and is waiting to reacquire the lock while still registered in activeGuards,
   * in which case the signal is a no-op, and the bigger-picture signal is lost unless interrupted
   * threads take special action by participating in the signal-passing game.
   */

  /*
   * Timeout handling is intricate, especially given our ambitious goals:

    Subscriber subscriber = Subscriber.create(bus, this, method);

    subscriber.invokeSubscriberMethod(FIXTURE_ARGUMENT);

    assertTrue("Subscriber must call provided method", methodCalled);
    assertTrue(
        "Subscriber argument must be exactly the provided object.",
        methodArgument == FIXTURE_ARGUMENT);
  }

  public void testInvokeSubscriberMethod_exceptionWrapping() throws Throwable {

on the bank, and of having nothing to do:  once or twice she had
peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'
thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'

  So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether

    assertEquals("Three Objects should be delivered.", 3, objectEvents.size());
    assertEquals("String fixture must be first object delivered.", EVENT, objectEvents.get(0));
    assertEquals("Object fixture must be second object delivered.", objEvent, objectEvents.get(1));
    assertEquals(
        "Comparable fixture must be thirdobject delivered.", compEvent, objectEvents.get(2));

    // Check the Catcher<Comparable<?>>...

    assertEquals("Three Objects should be delivered.", 3, objectEvents.size());
    assertEquals("String fixture must be first object delivered.", EVENT, objectEvents.get(0));
    assertEquals("Object fixture must be second object delivered.", objEvent, objectEvents.get(1));
    assertEquals(
        "Comparable fixture must be thirdobject delivered.", compEvent, objectEvents.get(2));

    // Check the Catcher<Comparable<?>>...

    Subscriber subscriber = Subscriber.create(bus, this, method);

    subscriber.invokeSubscriberMethod(FIXTURE_ARGUMENT);

    assertTrue("Subscriber must call provided method", methodCalled);
    assertTrue(
        "Subscriber argument must be exactly the provided object.",
        methodArgument == FIXTURE_ARGUMENT);
  }

  public void testInvokeSubscriberMethod_exceptionWrapping() throws Throwable {

   *       </blockquote>
   *   <li>The time to go from maxPermits to thresholdPermits is equal to the integral of the
   *       function between thresholdPermits and maxPermits. This is the area of the pictured
   *       trapezoid, and it is equal to 0.5 * (stableInterval + coldInterval) * (maxPermits -
   *       thresholdPermits). It is also equal to warmupPeriod, so
   *       <blockquote>