[vox-tech] Java Threads: Abort not found...

[Mike Simons]

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On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:32:15PM -0700, Ken Herron wrote:
> When you're developing for unix, [...]

  Excellent post Ken.

> Threads have a reputation for being difficult to work with. It's true=20
> there's a bit of a learning curve, but personally I've never had much=20
> trouble with them. They're definitely the wave of the future; java=20
> contains sophisticated thread support, and most complex GUI-driven=20
> programs are multithreaded. If you aspire to do serious programming=20
> you'll probably end up learning them anyway; better to do it now before=
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> you develop a lot of bad programming habits.

  All true.
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  I'm irritated about Java preventing one thread of forcefully stopping=20
another thread... If you start a child thread that makes a blocking call
into something, there doesn't appear to be a way for the parent thread=20
to decide the child has taken too long and forcefully abort the child=20
thread, or even get it to return from that blocked call.

  In all Java code I've seen that handles this situation the parent
just ignores the stuck child and continues along while the child is
left in limbo land if it ever returns the result will be ignored...
eventually the Java process exhausts resources on all the stuck
children threads.

  If anyone knows of a way for one Java thread to forcefully stop another
from stopping, let me know...

    TTFN,
      Mike

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