Thread.interrupt()

[Kresten Krab Thorup]

See:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4103109.html

The evaluation reads:

We believe Thread.interrupt to be no worse (and no better) than
Thread.stop at interrupting I/O in progress.  Unfortunately, neither of
these calls reliably breaks out of I/O waits.  On some platforms, it is
extremely difficult to implement the desired behavior.

xxxxx@xxxxx 1998-06-25

As of today, the interruptable io has officially deprecated. We are not
going to fix this bug. However, we leave the current implementation as
it is for backward compatibility.

xxxxx@xxxxx 1999-09-12


-- Kresten

Kresten Krab Thorup, Director of Research
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