Re: Handling the throwable "ThreadDeath"

From:
Eric Sosman <Eric.Sosman@sun.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:58:52 -0400
Message-ID:
<1251208698.443885@news1nwk>
Gerald Murdock wrote:

markspace wrote:

Gerald Murdock wrote:

Which seems to me to be missing the point: apparently it IS broke, to
the point that someone is contemplating catching ThreadDeath and
doing other equally-dubious things to work around issues created by
the use of Thread.stop().


No


Yes. In fact he got this specific advice elsewhere in this thread
regarding handling TD:
[...]


     My warning about the proper way to catch ThreadDeath is in no
way a proof that RVince planned to do so. His actual question was

    "My question is how do I handle this? Can I just let it go
    (the system seems to run fine afterwards -- but maybe I have
    thread leakage?). How do you handle this "ThreadDeath"
    throwable in a try-catch block, and what do you do with it
    afterwards?"

.... which I think supports markspace's hypothesis that RVince has
stumbled across something unfamiliar and scary-looking and doesn't
know what (if anything) to do about it.

--
Eric.Sosman@sun.com

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