Re: [PATCH] [MinGW]: Reset/Ignore Thread Interruption for Plain[Datagram]SocketImpl

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at mckinlay dot net dot nz>]

On Dec 12, 2003, at 5:28 PM, Mohan Embar wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> Operations on Plain[Datagram]Socket aren't
> interruptible under Sun's JRE; this patch simply
> resets and ignores the thread's interrupted
> flag after such operations. With this patch,
> I get an almost-perfect diff with the attached test
> between Sun's JRE 1.4.2 and gcj on Win32.

> +        // Reset and ignore our thread's interrupted flag.
> +        // It's not possible to interrupt these sort of
> +        // operations on Win32 anyway.
> +        ::java::lang::Thread::interrupted();
> +

Yuck! Does the Sun JRE really do this? It seems like a bug if thats the 
case. I can't think of any good reason to silently swallow the 
interrupted flag.

Regards

Bryce.