FileChannel implements InterruptibleChannel, help or hindrance?

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/02/2018 19:22, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>
> Providing dynamic toggling of interruptibility would introduce 
> complexity that we probably don’t want. The OpenOption approach is 
> appealing but the InterruptibleChannel specification does not appear 
> to admit much flexibility on this point:
>
> [Interrupting a thread] blocked in an I/O operation on an 
> interruptible channel […] will cause the channel to be closed, the 
> blocked thread to receive a |ClosedByInterruptException| 
> <http://download.java.net/java/jdk10/docs/api/java/nio/channels/ClosedByInterruptException.html>, 
> and the blocked thread's interrupt status to be set.
>
Yes, it would mean clarifications to allow that, maybe even an 
isInterruptible method on this interface to allow for testing.

-Alan
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