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   +----java.lang.Thread
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           +----edu.utah.janos.tests.WatchDog

Summary

public class  WatchDog
     extends java.lang.Thread
{
          // Fields 2
     private Thread thread;
     private long time;

          // Constructors 1
     public WatchDog(long, Thread);

          // Methods 1
     public void run();
}

A simple watch dog thread. It waits for a given length of time and then interrupts the target thread, unless it gets interrupted beforehand.

Fields

· time

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   private long time

The amount of time to sleep before interrupting thread

   private Thread thread

The thread to watch, and interrupt if time expires before we're interrupted

Constructors

· WatchDog

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   public WatchDog(long ti, 
                   Thread th) 

Construct a watch dog thread that watches a thread for ti time

Parameter	Description
ti	The length of time to sleep before interrupting the thread
th	The thread to watch

   public void run() 

Sleep for time milliseconds and then call interrupt on thread if we aren't interrupted before hand. An interrupt called on our thread will cause make the thread quit quietly.

Overrides:

run in class Thread

Implements:

run in interface Runnable

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