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"Fix" the semantics of synchronized

In http://java.sun.com/people/billf/real-time/words99.pdf
Bill Foote of Sun says

"Fix" the semantics of synchronized
- Bounded time overhead
- Priority inversion avoidance protocol
  o Priority inheritance
  o Priority Ceiling

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Why are these things associated with "semantics of synchronized"?
I thought the only problem with synchronized was that they had
not defined how threads inside synchronized running a wait() are
queued - fifo or lifo?

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