Thread.interrupt()

Wed Mar 15 11:57:00 GMT 2000

Boehm, Hans wrote,
> The crucial problem with this is that at least every class in 
> the system that performs blocking I/O has to play by these 
> rules.

The same applies to Thread.interrupt().
Interrupts can be cleared or deferred indefinitely, so Thread.
interrupt() isn't a guaranteed way of cancelling a thread which
doesn't respect the protocol.
Much the same goes for the complaint that resource revocation
violates encapsulation: if it's unexpected an interrupt 
represents a pretty violent disruption of control flow.
Of course an interrupt isn't always unexpected, but then 
neither is resource revocation.
Cheers,
Miles
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