I've developed a framework that loads potentially untrusted plug-in code from a remote repository into my framework's process at runtime (using OSGi). Each plug-in is started on a thread that my framework holds a reference to. Problematically, misbehaving plug-ins may continue to run, even when asked to stop by the framework using conventional means (i.e. setting a flag). Because of this, I need a way to forceably kill the thread a problem plug-in is running on, along with any additional threads the plug-in thread may have created. Since I can't rely on "normal" methods of managing plug-in threads (i.e. using a flag or relying on the thread obeying an interrupted exception), I've tried sending the plug-in thread's id into android.os.Process.killProcess, but this doesn't seem to work. I've also tried using ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses, but this method doesn't seem to operate at the thread level.
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