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

[Stuart Marks]

On 6/3/18 8:55 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 03/06/2018 13:11, David Holmes wrote:
>>
>> Any suggestions as to how to do that in a practical and effective way?
>>
>> "As if done by the highly-dangerous, long-deprecated and finally removed 
>> Thread.stop(Throwable)"
>>
>> ? ;-)
>>
>> In all seriousness I hate to do anything that might suggest these are valid 
>> API's even for tools. Maybe we should deprecate them as well (separate RFE of 
>> course).
> These date back to JPDA in JDK 1.2 (it was JVMDI at the time, pre-dates JVM TI) 
> and would need research to see if there are debuggers or maybe fault injection 
> tools are using it.
> 
> For Stuart's current effort then it will need a bit of text, maybe borrowing old 
> spec where the operation was specified to "stop" a thread with an asynchronous 
> exception. Warnings about the dangers are probably appropriate but these are of 
> course interfaces that developers are unlikely to ever use directly.

The spec for com.sun.jdk.ThreadReference.stop(Throwable) seems sufficiently 
descriptive to stand alone if the @see Thread.stop(Throwable) cross reference is 
simply removed.

Are there any other changes that need to be done as part of this changeset?

s'marks