Stop/Interrupt threads blocked on waiting input from socket

Question

As the title says I need a way to stop or interrupt a thread that is blocked waiting on an input from the socket.

Answer 1

You could simply close() the IO stream/socket from another thread. Then, you could check on a volatile boolean field if the resulting IOException is due the close or something else. I think the close might result in an java.net.SocketException: Socket closed exception.