THE PACKAGE JAVA.LANG

java.lang.Thread

20.20

20.20.40

public static void sleep(long millis, int nanos)

throws InterruptedException

This method causes the current thread to yield and not to be scheduled for further

execution until a certain amount of real time has elapsed, more or less.

The amount of real time, measured in nanoseconds, is given by:

1000000*millis+nanos

In all other respects, this method does the same thing as the method

sleep

 of one

argument ( 20.20.39). In particular,

sleep(0, 0)

 means the same thing as

sleep(0)

.

If the current thread is interrupted ( 20.20.31) by another thread while it is

waiting, then the sleep is ended and an

InterruptedException

 is thrown.

20.20.41

public void destroy()

throws SecurityException

First, the

checkAccess

 method ( 20.20.12) of this

Thread

 object is called with

no arguments. This may result in throwing a

SecurityException

 (in the current

thread).

Then destroys this thread, without any cleanup. Any monitors the thread has

locked remain locked.

[This method is not implemented in early versions of Java, through 1.1.]

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