It is a widely known fact that one shall not stop running processes using Thread.stop().
Usually the manuals and tutorials suggest using Thread.interrupt() or some boolean variable instead, and checking from inside the code for that interrupt or variable.
But if I have a library method which takes a very long time to execute sometimes, and I want to give user an ability to stop that process? And library does not give me a mechanisms to do it (does not check thread interrupted status, and no “stop!” variables)?
And, to add to the bad things, there is either no source code for library, or it is just too big to edit it and add checks at appropriate places.
It seems that Thread.stop() is the only solution here. Or maybe there is some workaround?
If practical in your situation, spawn another process and treat that as the unit of work, rather than a thread. Process killing is much more deterministic, though devoting a process to what used to be a thread’s work might be too heavyweight for your situation.