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Class Acme.TimeKiller

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public class TimeKiller

extends Object

implements Runnable

A simple timeout class. You give it a thread to watch and a timeout in milliseconds. After the timeout has elapsed, the thread is killed with a Thread.stop(). If the thread finishes successfully before then, you can cancel the timeout with a done() call; you can also re-use the timeout on the same thread with the reset() call.

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TimeKiller(long)

Constructor, current thread.

TimeKiller(Thread, long)

Constructor.

done()

Call this when the target thread has finished.

reset()

Call this to restart the wait from zero.

reset(long)

Call this to restart the wait from zero with a different timeout value.

run()

The watcher thread - from the Runnable interface.

 public TimeKiller(Thread targetThread,
                   long millis)

Constructor. Give it a thread to watch, and a timeout in milliseconds. After the timeout has elapsed, the thread gets killed. If you want to cancel the kill, just call done().

 public TimeKiller(long millis)

Constructor, current thread.

 public synchronized void done()

Call this when the target thread has finished.

 public synchronized void reset()

Call this to restart the wait from zero.

 public synchronized void reset(long millis)

Call this to restart the wait from zero with a different timeout value.

 public synchronized void run()

The watcher thread - from the Runnable interface. This has to be pretty anal to avoid monitor lockup, lost threads, etc.

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