[jcifs] Infinite loop of error messages

[Michael B Allen]

Ok, so interrupt() is ok but we would need to tweek the code to catch
those. I'll add this to The List but for now just check the exit condition
in between writes.

Mike

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:46:23 -0400
Jake Goulding <goulding at vivisimo.com> wrote:

> Yup, interrupt is the correct way of telling a thread to stop in the 
> middle of processing. There are 4 different interrupt cases, described 
> in the following link:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html#interrupt()
> 
> I can have multiple threads accessing the same host. The fact that an 
> interrupt can leave the Transport in a bad state is very annoying, 
> because then other threads will pick up the same bad transport and keep 
> using it. It is something like this that can cause log files to be 
> filled with errors, as the timeout never has a chance to occur.
> 
> Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
> >> From: jcifs at lists.samba.org On Behalf Of Michael B Allen
> >> Subject: Re: [jcifs] Infinite loop of error messages
> >>
> >> I believe Thread.interrupt() is deprecated and with good reason.
> >>     
> >
> > It is neither deprecated nor dangerous, as the interrupt exception can
> > only occur in well-defined condtions when the target thread is already
> > blocked; normally, the target thread has to poll the isInterrupted()
> > method to see if anyone is trying to get its attention.
> >
> > Perhaps you're thinking of Thread.suspend() or Thread.stop(), which
> > truly are abominations?
> >
> >  - Chuck
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