Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ?

From:

Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:15:23 +0100

Message-ID:

<s83rca-n0e.ln1@s.simpson148.btinternet.com>

On 01/08/13 22:07, Lew wrote:

usvirtualo...@gmail.com wrote:

Lew wrote:

Who will catch the exception?

The code being stopped. E.g., I could have my
thread defined in a class Z like:

   class Z implements Runnable {
       public void run() {
           try {
                ... code
           } catch (ThreadDeath e) {

Since this catch is in the same thread that just died, it cannot run.

Are you saying that this won't print out "Dead"?

   public class Stopped {
       public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
           Thread t = new Thread() {
                   public void run() {
                       try {
                           Thread.sleep(10000);
                       } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                           System.out.println("Interrupted");
                       } catch (ThreadDeath td) {
                           System.out.println("Dead");
                       }
                   }
               };

           t.start();
           Thread.sleep(4000);
           System.out.println("Stopping");
           t.stop();
       }
   }

I get:

   Stopping
   Dead

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