> I was looking into getting InterruptedIOException to get raised properly when
> doing IO and have some issues with the C native methd sysReadFD(). Function
> sysReadFD() is in files .../native_threads/io_md.c and
> .../green_threads/io_md.c.
>
> From looking at the source code for sysReadFD() in .../green_threads/io_md.c,
> it looks like sysReadFD() should return a function result of -2 if the thread
> was interrupted when doing the read.
>
> However, when I looked at the places where sysReadFD() gets called (in module
> src/share/java/lang/io.c), the status of -2 is never checked. So, how does
> InterruptedIOException get raised when a thread is interrupted in the middle
> of calling sysReadFD() ?