JAVA多线程之中断机制（stop()、interrupted()、isInterrupted()）

一，介绍

本文记录JAVA多线程中的中断机制的一些知识点。主要是stop方法、interrupted()与isInterrupted()方法的区别，并从源代码的实现上进行简单分析。

 

JAVA中有3种方式可以终止正在运行的线程

①线程正常退出，即run()方法执行完毕了

②使用Thread类中的stop()方法强行终止线程。但stop()方法已经过期了，不推荐使用

③使用中断机制

线程正常退出没有什么东东，中断机制下面详细介绍，先看下stop()方法的源代码，关键是源代码上的注释。它解释了为什么stop()不安全，stop()方法停止的是哪个线程？

    /**
     * Forces the thread to stop executing.
     * <p>
     * If there is a security manager installed, its <code>checkAccess</code>
     * method is called with <code>this</code>
     * as its argument. This may result in a
     * <code>SecurityException</code> being raised (in the current thread).
     * <p>
     * If this thread is different from the current thread (that is, the current
     * thread is trying to stop a thread other than itself), the
     * security manager's <code>checkPermission</code> method (with a
     * <code>RuntimePermission("stopThread")</code> argument) is called in
     * addition.
     * Again, this may result in throwing a
     * <code>SecurityException</code> (in the current thread).
     * <p>
     * The thread represented by this thread is forced to stop whatever
     * it is doing abnormally and to throw a newly created
     * <code>ThreadDeath</code> object as an exception.
     * <p>
     * It is permitted to stop a thread that has not yet been started.
     * If the thread is eventually started, it immediately terminates.
     * <p>
     * An application should not normally try to catch
     * <code>ThreadDeath</code> unless it must do some extraordinary
     * cleanup operation (note that the throwing of
     * <code>ThreadDeath</code> causes <code>finally</code> clauses of
     * <code>try</code> statements to be executed before the thread
     * officially dies).  If a <code>catch</code> clause catches a
     * <code>ThreadDeath</code> object, it is important to rethrow the
     * object so that the thread actually dies.
     * <p>
     * The top-level error handler that reacts to otherwise uncaught
     * exceptions does not print out a message or otherwise notify the
     * application if the uncaught exception is an instance of
     * <code>ThreadDeath</code>.
     *
     * @exception  SecurityException  if the current thread cannot
     *               modify this thread.
     * @see        #interrupt()
     * @see        #checkAccess()
     * @see        #run()
     * @see        #start()
     * @see        ThreadDeath
     * @see        ThreadGroup#uncaughtException(Thread,Throwable)
     * @see        SecurityManager#checkAccess(Thread)
     * @see        SecurityManager#checkPermission
     * @deprecated This method is inherently unsafe.  Stopping a thread with
     *       Thread.stop causes it to unlock all of the monitors that it
     *       has locked (as a natural consequence of the unchecked
     *       <code>ThreadDeath</code> exception propagating up the stack).  If
     *       any of the objects previously protected by these monitors were in
     *       an inconsistent state, the damaged objects become visible to
     *       other threads, potentially resulting in arbitrary behavior.  Many
     *       uses of <code>stop</code> should be replaced by code that simply
     *       modifies some variable to indicate that the target thread should
     *       stop running.  The target thread should check this variable
     *       regularly, and return from its run method in an orderly fashion
     *       if the variable indicates that it is to stop running.  If the
     *       target thread waits for long periods (on a condition variable,
     *       for example), the <code>interrupt</code> method should be used to
     *       interrupt the wait.
     *       For more information, see
     *       <a href="{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/concurrency/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html">Why
     *       are Thread.stop, Thread.suspend and Thread.resume Deprecated?</a>.
     */
    @Deprecated
    public final void stop() {
        stop(new ThreadDeath());
    }

上面注释，第9行到第16行表明，stop()方法可以停止“其他线程”。执行thread.stop()方法这条语句的线程称为当前线程，而“其他线程”则是 调用thread.stop()方法的对象thread所代表的线程。

如：

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyThread thread = new MyThread...
        //.....
        thread.stop();
        //....
    }

在main方法中，当前线程就是main线程。它执行到第4行，想把“其他线程”thread“ 给停止。这个其他线程就是MyThread类 new 的thread对象所表示的线程。

第21行至23行表明，可以停止一个尚未started(启动)的线程。它的效果是：当该线程启动后，就立马结束了。

第48行以后的注释，则深刻表明了为什么stop()方法被弃用！为什么它是不安全的。

比如说，threadA线程拥有了监视器，这些监视器负责保护某些临界资源，比如说银行的转账的金额。当正在转账过程中，main线程调用 threadA.stop()方法。结果导致监视器被释放，其保护的资源（转账金额）很可能出现不一致性。比如，A账户减少了100，而B账户却没有增加100

 

二，中断机制

JAVA中如何正确地使用中断机制的细节太多了。interrupted()方法与 isInterrupted()方法都是反映当前线程的是否处于中断状态的。

①interrupted()

    /**
     * Tests whether the current thread has been interrupted.  The
     * <i>interrupted status</i> of the thread is cleared by this method.  In
     * other words, if this method were to be called twice in succession, the
     * second call would return false (unless the current thread were
     * interrupted again, after the first call had cleared its interrupted
     * status and before the second call had examined it).
     *
     * <p>A thread interruption ignored because a thread was not alive
     * at the time of the interrupt will be reflected by this method
     * returning false.
     *
     * @return  <code>true</code> if the current thread has been interrupted;
     *          <code>false</code> otherwise.
     * @see #isInterrupted()
     * @revised 6.0
     */
    public static boolean interrupted() {
        return currentThread().isInterrupted(true);
    }

从源码的注释中看出，它测试的是当前线程(current thread)的中断状态，且这个方法会清除中断状态。

 

②isInterrupted()

    /**
     * Tests whether this thread has been interrupted.  The <i>interrupted
     * status</i> of the thread is unaffected by this method.
     *
     * <p>A thread interruption ignored because a thread was not alive
     * at the time of the interrupt will be reflected by this method
     * returning false.
     *
     * @return  <code>true</code> if this thread has been interrupted;
     *          <code>false</code> otherwise.
     * @see     #interrupted()
     * @revised 6.0
     */
    public boolean isInterrupted() {
        return isInterrupted(false);
    }

从源码注释中可以看出，isInterrupted()方法不会清除中断状态。

 

③interrupted()方法与 isInterrupted()方法的区别

从源代码可以看出，这两个方法都是调用的isInterrupted(boolean ClearInterrupted),只不过一个带的参数是true，另一个带的参数是false。

    /**
     * Tests if some Thread has been interrupted.  The interrupted state
     * is reset or not based on the value of ClearInterrupted that is
     * passed.
     */
    private native boolean isInterrupted(boolean ClearInterrupted);

因此，第一个区别就是，一个会清除中断标识位，另一个不会清除中断标识位。

再分析源码，就可以看出第二个区别在return 语句上：

    public static boolean interrupted() {
        return currentThread().isInterrupted(true);
    }

    /************************/
    public boolean isInterrupted() {
        return isInterrupted(false);
    }

interrupted()测试的是当前的线程的中断状态。而isInterrupted()测试的是调用该方法的对象所表示的线程。一个是静态方法（它测试的是当前线程的中断状态），一个是实例方法（它测试的是实例对象所表示的线程的中断状态）。

下面用个具体的例子来更进一步地阐明这个区别。

有一个自定义的线程类如下：

public class MyThread extends Thread {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        super.run();
        for (int i = 0; i < 500000; i++) {
            System.out.println("i=" + (i + 1));
        }
    }
}

 

先看interrupted()方法的示例：

public class Run {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            MyThread thread = new MyThread();
            thread.start();
            Thread.sleep(1000);
            thread.interrupt();
            //Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
            System.out.println("是否停止1？="+thread.interrupted());//false
            System.out.println("是否停止2？="+thread.interrupted());//false main线程没有被中断!!!
　　　　　　//......

第5行启动thread线程，第6行使main线程睡眠1秒钟从而使得thread线程有机会获得CPU执行。

main线程睡眠1s钟后，恢复执行到第7行，请求中断 thread线程。

第9行测试线程是否处于中断状态，这里测试的是哪个线程呢？？？答案是main线程。因为：

（1）interrupted()测试的是当前的线程的中断状态

（2）main线程执行了第9行语句，故main线程是当前线程

 

再看isInterrupted()方法的示例：

public class Run3 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            MyThread thread = new MyThread();
            thread.start();
            Thread.sleep(1000);
            thread.interrupt();
            System.out.println("是否停止1？="+thread.isInterrupted());//true

在第8行，是thread对象调用的isInterrupted()方法。因此，测试的是thread对象所代表的线程的中断状态。由于在第7行，main线程请求中断 thread线程，故在第8行的结果为: true