Thread.interrupt()

[Jeff Sturm]

Kresten Krab Thorup wrote:
[...]
> 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

IOW, Sun crippled their API because Win32 doesn't handle interruptable
I/O portably.  Not a good policy.

Since Java doesn't support read() with timeouts either, it is easy to
create a "stuck" thread that can never die.

Question: do the libgcj maintainers feel obligated to follow Sun's
interpretation of the JLS?

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Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com