On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Jeroen Frijters <jer...@sumatra.nl> wrote:
> IMO Thread.currentThread().stop(new Throwable()) should continue to work. > It is not unsafe and it is probably used in a lot of code to workaround the > madness that is checked exceptions. > > There are existing JDK tests that use currentThread().stop to implement the occasionally necessary sneakyThrow. I suspect there are important uses of unsafe otherThread.stop in the real world, where it is used as a last resort to shut down an "application" running within a java vm, and works reasonably well in practice.
