Interrupt a thread in DatagramSocket.receive

Question

I\'m building an application that listens on both TCP and UDP, and I\'ve run into some trouble with my shutdown mechanism. When I call Thread.interrupt() on eac

Answer 1

As far as I know, close() is the proper way to interrupt a blocked socket. Interrupting and keeping open something that may have already done a partial read or write makes things unnecessarily complex. It's easier to only have to deal with a "success" or "give up" result.