interrupt to thread

[naik_amit]

We can interrupt a thread if it is sleeping.
But what if i interrupt a thread which is runing?

Does this defers the execution the thread?

[JosAH]

We can interrupt a thread if it is sleeping.
But what if i interrupt a thread which is runing?

Does this defers the execution the thread?

Ripped from that API documentation for the Thread class:

If this thread is blocked in an invocation of the wait(), wait(long), or wait(long, int) methods of the Object class, or of the join(), join(long), join(long, int), sleep(long), or sleep(long, int), methods of this class, then its interrupt status will be cleared and it will receive an InterruptedException.

If this thread is blocked in an I/O operation upon an interruptible channel then the channel will be closed, the thread's interrupt status will be set, and the thread will receive a ClosedByInterruptException.

If this thread is blocked in a Selector then the thread's interrupt status will be set and it will return immediately from the selection operation, possibly with a non-zero value, just as if the selector's wakeup method were invoked.

If none of the previous conditions hold then this thread's interrupt status will be set.

Interrupting a thread that is not alive need not have any effect.

In particular the second to last sentence is important ...

kind regards,

Jos

[naik_amit]

thanks.
It means if thread is not doing any i/o operations then there is no harm.