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*EX3:* "The only situation in which it is acceptable to swallow an interrupt is when you are extending Thread and therefore control all the code higher up on the call stack." \[[Goetz 06|AA. Java References#Goetz 06]\]. In such cases {{InterruptedException}} may be caught and ignored. A interruption request may also be swallowed by code that implements a thread's interruption policy \[[Goetz 06, pg 143|AA. Java References#Goetz 06]\]. |
Risk Assessment
Ignoring or suppressing exceptions violates the fail-safe criteria of an application.
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