Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Why?

[Albert Y.C. Lai]

Steve Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> This, in effect, is that the interrupt mechanism does.  It sets an
> interrupted flag in the thread that user code can watch for, and I
> think it breaks you out of Thread.sleep or other thread related
> operations.

Right.  Sleeping and blocking I/O are interrupted by the interrupt
mechanism; when this happens, the I/O methods and the sleep method
throw an appropriate exception that tells you it is interrupted.

I want to remark that there is no silver bullet; so I am glad that a
silver bullet is deprecated.

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