Cedric Berger wrote: > Bryce McKinlay wrote: > > the > > interrupt call still didn't do anything. Perhaps the JDK's interrupt > > doesn't work for the stdio streams - only for sockets and file > > operations. > > >> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4154947.html Yeah. I had thought it worked on Linux though. Perhaps I was wrong. The bug report also seems to indicate that this will be fixed in JDK 1.4 (ie Interrupting I/O will work on Windows). regards [ bryce ]