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[Peter Hansen]

Roger Binns wrote:

> Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
>>Sounds like you can't eat your cake and have it, too.  If
>>you _could_ interrupt threads**, wouldn't that mean "the worker
>>threads just get abruptly stopped in the middle of what they
>>were doing"?
> 
> I meant in the same way that can in Java.  In that case an
> InterruptedException is thrown which the thread can catch
> and do whatever it wants with.

I didn't think things worked quite that way in Java.  For
example, I thought InterruptedException was seen by a thread
only if it had actually been asleep at the time it was sent.

I also didn't know it would actually terminate certain
blocking calls, such as in socket stuff.

Oh well, it's been a while...

-Peter