On 03/06/2018 13:11, David Holmes wrote:
Any suggestions as to how to do that in a practical and effective way?
"As if done by the highly-dangerous, long-deprecated and finally
removed Thread.stop(Throwable)"
? ;-)
In all seriousness I hate to do anything that might suggest these are
valid API's even for tools. Maybe we should deprecate them as well
(separate RFE of course).
These date back to JPDA in JDK 1.2 (it was JVMDI at the time, pre-dates
JVM TI) and would need research to see if there are debuggers or maybe
fault injection tools are using it.
For Stuart's current effort then it will need a bit of text, maybe
borrowing old spec where the operation was specified to "stop" a thread
with an asynchronous exception. Warnings about the dangers are probably
appropriate but these are of course interfaces that developers are
unlikely to ever use directly.
-Alan
