LinkedBlockingQueue thowing InterruptedException

Question

I have this piece of code. A LinkedBlockingQueue should only throw an Exception if interrupted while waiting to add to the queue. But this queue is unb

Answer 1

If the thread is in a state of interruption, that is Thread.interrupted() == true, then the call will throw an InterruptionException. It doesn't necessarily mean that the thread was interrupted while you were putting, it could have already been in the state before entering.