How to kill a user thread forcefully?

[Mohit Jain]

Hi Ranchers

Please tell how do we kill a user thread as no such method is provided by th 'Thread' class.

[Manfred Klug]

Hi Mohit,

There is such a function. But you should read the API Documentation carefully why you shouldn't use it.

[Mohit Jain]

Hi Manfred

I know we can use depricated method 'stop()' to stop the thread.

But if I dont want to use any depricated method then how to kill a running thread??

Thanks in advance..

[Manfred Klug]

Originally posted by Mohit Jain:
I know we can use depricated method 'stop()' to stop the thread.

But if I dont want to use any depricated method then how to kill a running thread??

Then the answer is: There is no such function. And if you understand the API documentation you will know why.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The basic method for stopping a thread is outlined here.

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Mohit Jain:

I know we can use depricated method 'stop()' to stop the thread.

But if I dont want to use any depricated method then how to kill a running thread??

There is a reason why stop() is deprecated. It is deprecated because when you force a thread to stop, instead of asking it to stop gracefully, you can leave variables in an indeterminate state -- as locks are forced to be released.

stop() is deprecated because there is no guaranteed safe way to force a thread to stop.

Henry