Re: Deprecated `Thread.stop()' in forthcoming JDK 1.2. Why?

[Nelson Minar]

>The whole Thread.stop() thing is very nasty in non-green-thread
>systems. The core OS may not support the needed mechanisms to cleanly
>stop a thread at various points (such as during a blocked I/O)

URGH! So the entire Java language is weakened to support OSes with
poor threading support. Even *after* we have a library, green threads,
that lets you work around bad threading in the OS?

Not being able to stop a thread preemptively is a really big problem.
How do you stop an applet in a browser that happens to be buggy or
malicious and has spun off in a tight loop?

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