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On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:05:55 -0700, Peter wrote:

> Thanks for the opinions
> If implement Runnable, and you call "sleep()" within run(). After
> you call interrupt(), then thread won't stop too.
>
> from Peter

It's not clear whether you want the thread to stop or not.
Anyway, here's an example where the thread doesn't stop when interrupted.
Uncomment the line in the loop to make it stop when it is interrupted.

Steve


/** QuickTest.java */
public class QuickTest implements Runnable {

private volatile boolean shouldRun = false;

public static void main(String[] args) {
// Create and start a QuickTest
QuickTest qt = new QuickTest();
Thread t = new Thread(qt);
t.start();

// wait 5 seconds
try {
Thread.sleep(5000);
} catch(InterruptedException ie) {
System.out.println("Main thread interrupted - shouldn't happen");
}

// interrupt the test thread
t.interrupt();

// wait another 5 seconds
try {
Thread.sleep(5000);
} catch(InterruptedException ie) {
System.out.println("Main thread interrupted - shouldn't happen");
}
}

/** Loop forever. */
public void run() {
shouldRun = true;
while(shouldRun) {
System.out.println("Snooze...");
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch(InterruptedException ie) {
System.out.println("Sleeper loop was interrupted.");
shouldRun = false;
}
}
System.out.println("Sleeper loop terminating");
}



}
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On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:40:51 +0100, Steve Horsley wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:05:55 -0700, Peter wrote:
>
>
> It's not clear whether you want the thread to stop or not.
> Anyway, here's an example where the thread doesn't stop when interrupted.
> Uncomment the line in the loop to make it stop when it is interrupted.
>

Oops, I lied.
The posted example _does_ stop. Comment out the line:
shouldRun = false;
to make it carry on even after an interrupt.

Steve

"Steve Horsley" <_SPAM.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 23:23:54 -0700, Peter wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I have a class that extend Thread. If i put this line
> > "thread.currentThread().sleep(1000);" into the "public void run()",
> > after i call interrupt(), the thread will stop.
> >
> > thanks
> > from Peter ()
>
> Do you have a question? If so, I suggest you post some code with it so
> others can see more clearly what you're on about.


I'm gathering that his question involves the fact that the thread is not
interrupted at the instant that interrupt is called on it. If that is the
question, then that is the way it is supposed to work.

It will only be interrupted when in a wait, join, sleep, or blocked in
certain I/O operations in the New I/O API. If it is not currently blocked
all that will happen is that the threads interrupted flag is set so that it
will be interrupted when it does do a blocking operation or you can also
query the status of the interrupt flag with the interrupted method (which
also clears the flag).
--
Dale King