How to interrupt an Infinite Loop

Question

Though I know it\'ll be a bit silly to ask, still I want to inquire more about the technical perspective of it.

A simple example of an infinite loop:

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Answer 1

You can interrupt this thread by keeping its static reference of inherited reference to this Thread [main] by asking from Thread.currentThread(), like this

public class LoopInfinite{
public static Thread main = null;
public static void main(String[] args){
    main = Thread.currentThread();
    for(;;)
       System.out.println("Stackoverflow");
    }
}

And to terminate you can call this from some other thread

LoopInfinite.main.interrupt();

But it will only work if both threads are part of the same group. Otherwise calling thread will get SecurityException