Unblocking blocked I/O

Wed Sep 19 01:18:00 GMT 2001

Hi,
On 2001年9月19日, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> David Vrabel wrote:
>> > [...]
> >I also tried Thread.interrupt() but that seemed completely broken.
> >
> This discussion has come up before. Last time, I think we agreed that
> the semantics of Thread.interrupt() were pretty much undefined when it
> comes to blocking I/O, and since its implementation varies significantly
> between platforms we wern't going to bother implementing it at all
> unless Sun fix it or clarify the spec.

Yeah. I found that discussion. So much for the claimed cross-platform
compatibility...
> Unblocking I/O by closing a socket (resource revocation), however,
> should work, and its a bug if it doesn't. Do you have a test case?

Yes. It's perhaps a bit long but find it attached. Hmm. Attachments are
okay aren't they?
David Vrabel