[Deploying Sakai] killing threads

[Charles Hedrick]

Of course, given that I typically look at what code is looping, I  
could probably use Thread.stop with a signal that makes sense at that  
point.

On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote:

>>> however Thread.stop() is considered unsafe:
>>
>>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1102094/killing-thread-instantly-in-java
>>
>> and even Sun's own disclaimer:
>>
>>  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/misc/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html
>>
>> which is why I've never even attempted it...
>
> I read that. However the alternative is to leave the thread in the  
> loop. The inconsistency is still there. In addition, the looping  
> thread could have some critical data structure locked. In that case  
> the JVM (or perhaps one user or one test, etc) could be unusable.  
> I've never actually seen that in one of these looping situations.  
> There's no really safe alternative other than restarting the JVM,  
> and even that could leave the database in an inconsistent state. You  
> pays your money and takes your choice.
>
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