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Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ?

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Subject	Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ?
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On Thursday, August 1, 2013 11:25:25 AM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/1/2013 11:00 AM, usvirtualobservatory@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I think it is something like:
> 
> 
> 
> You can achieve what you want to do in two ways: 
> A) use Thread.stop
> B) set a flag and let the thread do what it need to do to
>     terminate in a graceful manner
> 
> 
> #A can be done safely in some cases and can not be done safely in
> other cases. Even if it can be done safely, then it will require
> significant analysis to get it right. And even if it gets done
> right, then there is a high risk that that a bug will be introduced
> during maintenance later, because the maintenance programmer do not
> have the skill or the time to understand the subtleties of the
> problem.
> 
> 
> 
> #B can always be done safely. It requires not much work. And
> is relative maintenance friendly.
> 
> Easy choice in my opinion.
> 
> Arne

Sure...  If you control all the code, and your code has no bugs in it (so that no infinite loop occurs somewhere you didn't expect).  That's not always the case -- I certainly expect that my code has bugs and I use a fair number of external libraries which may have bugs of there own.

Since most of my task code is single threaded and numerical, and I'd plan on throwing away anything touched by a killed thread, a lot of the concerns that are brought up seem more handleable than might be the case in other applications.

   Tom

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What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-07-31 06:36 -0700
  Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2013-07-31 18:31 +0200
  Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-31 12:35 -0400
    Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 14:13 -0700
      Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? usvirtualobservatory@gmail.com - 2013-08-01 07:38 -0700
        Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 14:07 -0700
          Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2013-08-01 23:15 +0100
            Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-01 16:16 -0700
              Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-08-02 18:35 +0100
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2013-08-03 19:21 -0700
              Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-02 21:58 -0400
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 05:08 -0700
  Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2013-07-31 21:09 -0700
    Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? usvirtualobservatory@gmail.com - 2013-08-01 08:00 -0700
      Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-01 11:25 -0400
        Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-08-01 11:49 -0400
          Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-02 21:51 -0400
        Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-01 09:30 -0700
          Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-08-01 10:01 -0700
          Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-02 21:55 -0400
  Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 18:28 +0300
  Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-08-02 18:50 +0100
    Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-02 11:34 -0700
      Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-08-02 22:04 -0400
        Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-08-03 10:10 +0100
      Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-08-03 10:28 +0100
        Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-03 05:00 -0700
          Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2013-08-11 17:46 +0000
            Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-13 11:47 -0700
              Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 20:18 +0000
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-08-13 13:51 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2013-08-14 22:42 +0000
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-13 14:10 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-08-13 15:22 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2013-08-14 01:08 +0200
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-08-13 16:45 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2013-08-14 08:42 +0200
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2013-08-14 09:48 +0200
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-14 08:55 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-08-14 19:10 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-15 06:51 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-08-15 17:35 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-16 06:30 -0700
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2013-08-14 22:43 +0000
                Re: What is so bad aboud Thread.stop() ? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-08-15 12:12 -0700

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