Re: Thread.interrupt()

[Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>]

Jesper> and I wanted to point out that at least one of interuptable
Jesper> I/O or resource revocation (preferably both) *must* work. If
Jesper> neither works GCJ or Java generally would not be very useful
Jesper> to me.

I think both should work, if possible, in our implementation.

For Thread.interrupt(), I agree that the idea of restartability is
bogus.  That would require too much care in too many places, I think.
However, I still see this as useful for aborting I/O operations
partway through.

Tom