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Similarly, tasks that use some mechanism other than Thread.interrupted() to determine when to shut down will be unresponsive to shutdown() or shutdownNow(). For instance, tasks that check a volatile flag to determine whether it is safe to shutdown will be unresponsive to these methods. The rule THI06 THI05-J. Do not use Thread.stop() to terminate threads provides more information on using a flag to terminate threads.
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