Integrated: 8370568: Refer to Thread.interrupted as "interrupted status" consistently

Pavel Rappo prappo at openjdk.org
Wed Oct 29 15:39:31 UTC 2025


On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:45:38 GMT, Pavel Rappo <prappo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Throughout documentation and source code, the `Thread.interrupted` flag is referred to as either "interrupt**ed** status" or "interrupt status". It might be good to be consistent.
> 
> Historically, it seems to have initially been "interrupted status". This is how the flag is called in `java.lang.Thread` and the "Java Concurrency in Practice" book. ("The Java Programming Language" calls it "interrupted **state**".) However, over the years "interrupt status" appeared in documentation and source code through networking and NIO classes.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 28f2591b
Author:    Pavel Rappo <prappo at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/28f2591bad49c4d1590325c3d315d850ab6bcc7d
Stats:     260 lines in 77 files changed: 4 ins; 0 del; 256 mod

8370568: Refer to Thread.interrupted as "interrupted status" consistently

Reviewed-by: jpai, rriggs, alanb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27972


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