How to interrupt an Infinite Loop

Question

Though I know it\'ll be a bit silly to ask, still I want to inquire more about the technical perspective of it.

A simple example of an infinite loop:

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Answer 1

You won't be able to interrupt this particular loop without halting the process entirely. In general, if you're trying to do it from an external source (I'm assuming you have no control over the source code, because if you did you could easily set a condition in the loop, such as a boolean you could set from an external Thread), you will have to halt the running Thread, whether you do this through the Thread object (you'll have to find a reference to it somehow, for example by looping through existing Threads), or whether you halt it as a system process.

Another option would be to override the method with a loop that isn't an infinite loop, but unfortunately that doesn't apply to your example because it's a static method.