stopping threads

[Ken Walter]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2000 21:08:54, Alex <cut_me_out at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>> I'm currently reading up on Java threads, and while such a function
>> exists, the authors recommend very strongly against doing so.
>> Instead, your thread should watch for some condition and return/exit
>> from its main function/method when that condition becomes true.
>
>Do they say why?
>
Cleaning up resources and closing files properly.
It is always safer to "send a message" to the thread/process
and let it terminate itself.  Only misbehaving ones should be 
terminated from
the outside and then fixed.

>Alex.

Ken Walter

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