Re: how to kill a java thread by force?
On 12/14/2009 4:05 AM, john wrote:
in my project, sometimes some java thread can't be killed immediately,
is there any good ways to slove the problem?
in java API Thread.java, there isn't stop method, whether it means in
java, App writer can't kill a thread forcely or there is some around
methods?
If the victim thread isn't cooperating (by checking a
"stop now" flag occasionally or some such), the only way I
can think of to stop it safely is System.exit().
The problem with hurling a hand grenade into a thread's
vitals at some arbitrary moment is that you don't know what
the thread was doing at the moment you blew it up. If it
was in the middle of updating a data structure somewhere, the
data structure may now be half-updated, useless or even
poisonous to the rest of the program. You've got to make sure
the victim is in a "safe" state at the moment of termination,
and you can't do that without the victim's cooperation.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
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