Thread waiting on a data queue ... doesn't respond to interrupt()??

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks:

Has anyone ever seen something like this?

I've got a thread that's listening on a data queue ... timeout value is set to -1 (wait forever).

The thread is sent an interrupt message ... which should throw an InterruptedException that I catch ... but sometimes it doesn't.

The code that is reading the data queue looks like this:

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int waitTime = -1;

try {
    while(true) {
	try {
	    DataQueueEntry entry = changeQueue.read(waitTime);
	    if (entry != null) {
	    	processEntry(entry);
	    }
	} catch (AS400SecurityException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	} catch (ErrorCompletingRequestException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	} catch (IOException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	} catch (IllegalObjectTypeException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	} catch (ObjectDoesNotExistException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	}
    }
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    System.out.println("Thread was interrupted, exit");
}
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The method that is trying to interrupt the thread is something like this:

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monitorThread.interrupt();
try {
    monitorThread.join();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    logException(e);
}
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But it the join() method never seems to return.  

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this has only been seen when the program is running on the iSeries ... not on a PC.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

david