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- /*
- * @(#)ThreadDeath.java 1.9 98/03/18
- *
- * Copyright 1995-1997 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
- * 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A.
- * All rights reserved.
- *
- * This software is the confidential and proprietary information
- * of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You
- * shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use
- * it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement
- * you entered into with Sun.
- */
-
- package java.lang;
-
- /**
- * An instance of <code>ThreadDeath</code> is thrown in the victim
- * thread when the <code>stop</code> method with zero arguments in
- * class <code>Thread</code> is called.
- * <p>
- * An application should catch instances of this class only if it
- * must clean up after being terminated asynchronously. If
- * <code>ThreadDeath</code> is caught by a method, it is important
- * that it be rethrown so that the thread actually dies.
- * <p>
- * The top-level error handler does not print out a message if
- * <code>ThreadDeath</code> is never caught.
- * <p>
- * The class <code>ThreadDeath</code> is specifically a subclass of
- * <code>Error</code> rather than <code>Exception</code>, even though
- * it is a "normal occurrence", because many applications
- * catch all occurrences of <code>Exception</code> and then discard
- * the exception.
- *
- * @author unascribed
- * @version 1.9, 03/18/98
- * @see java.lang.Thread#stop()
- * @since JDK1.0
- */
-
- public class ThreadDeath extends Error {}
-