Thread.interrupt()

[Tom Tromey]

Jeff> So the reader thread will remain blocked after close.  We could
Jeff> modify close() to call lock.notifyAll(), and check the closed
Jeff> flag in read().  So at least for this class, Doug Lea's
Jeff> suggestion could probably be made to work.  I don't know how
Jeff> easy it would be to implement throughout java.io however.
Jeff> Thoughts?

I agree with Hans that resource revocation is an ugly way to go.  It
only works if you have a lot of knowledge of what the other thread is
doing.

Still, I think this ought to work -- that is, you found a bug in the
pipe classes.  Could you send a PR and/or patch?

Tom