Re: [tcljava-user] How to kill a jacl thread

[Mo D. <mo...@mo...>]

Jared Hodge wrote:
>
> Is there a good way to kill a jacl thread quickly from another thread? 
> I’m launching a large script and that has many calls to custom java 
> code (some of which take a while themselves), and sometimes I want to 
> just kill the whole thread off and start another one. The problem is 
> that the doOneEvent call seems to not exit until the script is 
> complete and so I can’t find a good way of getting the run thread to 
> exit. It seems that all other ways of exiting a thread have been 
> deprecated. Ideally I’d like to stop the thread dead in its tracks in 
> the middle of a java call, but that’s probably beyond the scope of 
> this mailing list. A reasonable alternative is to stop between 
> evaluations in the jacl interpreter, but I need some sort of low-level 
> hook inside the doOneEvent call. Does this already exist?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Jared
>
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See the Interp.setInterrupt() API. It is not possible to just kill a 
Java thread like that, this API is as close as it gets.

Mo DeJong