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

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/06/2018 06:36, David Holmes wrote:
> On 2/06/2018 10:43 AM, Stuart Marks wrote:
>> :
>>
>> It looks to me like this interface resides on the debugger side of 
>> JDWP. I don't know exactly where it's implemented in the target VM, 
>> but I imagine it goes through some VM-internal or JDWP implementation 
>> interface, not through the target VM's public 
>> java.lang.Thread.stop(thr) interface. Is that right? (I'm not that 
>> familiar with this area of the system.)
>
> It's a rather complex setup but the backend that does the work is 
> (usually?) JVM TI, which won't go back out through the Java API.
Right, there's a StopThread function in JVM TI and a corresponding Stop 
Command in the JDWP protocol. The JVM TI spec has a statement to say 
that it works "similar to Thread.stop" and the JDWP spec has "as if done 
by Thread.stop" so it would be good to update both of these.

-Alan