RFR(s): 8204243: remove Thread.destroy() and Thread.stop(Throwable)

[Lance Andersen]

Hi Stuart,

The changes look fine.    Is there a CSR or a release note that also needs to be reviewed?

Best
Lance
> On Jun 1, 2018, at 5:16 PM, Stuart Marks <stuart.marks at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Please review this changeset to remove the Thread.destroy() and Thread.stop(Throwable) methods. Both of these methods have been deprecated for a long time, and they were deprecated for removal in Java SE 9.
> 
> Thread.destroy() was never implemented, and has always thrown NoSuchMethodError back to the caller. Thread.stop(Throwable) was made non-functional in JDK 8, throwing UnsupportedOperationException back to the caller.
> 
> Note that the no-arg Thread.stop() method remains deprecated, not for removal, and is unaffected by this changeset.
> 
> Note also that ThreadGroup.destroy() doesn't actually destroy any threads -- just thread groups -- and that it is also unaffected by this changeset.
> 
> Bug:
> 
> 	https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204243
> 
> Webrev:
> 
> 	http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8204243/webrev.0/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> s'marks
> aka @DrDeprecator

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