Thread interrupt: will it cancel oncoming wait() call?

Question

I have a thread which has an incoming job queue (a LinkedList containing job descriptions). The thread blocks with wait() on the queue when there\'s no

Answer 1

yes, your interrupted thread will throw an InterruptedException upon calling wait(). this is pretty simple to test for yourself.

public class TestInt {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        Thread.currentThread().interrupt();

        synchronized(TestInt.class) {
            TestInt.class.wait();
        }    
    }    
}

also, note the javaodc for Object.wait():

InterruptedException - if any thread interrupted the current thread before or while the current thread was waiting for a notification. The interrupted status of the current thread is cleared when this exception is thrown.