How to close other thread's InputStream?

Question

Hi,
I am developing a multithreaded "JAVA CONSOLE APPLICATION".
Brief description of application is like this:
On initialising, application starts a new thread. In that it listens for the keyboard input from the user(System.in.read()). But it listens only for some time (5 seconds). After this time, this should be stopped and in main thread which is listening for the server application, should display information from the server and listen for the keyboard input from the user.
But the problem is, it listens for two keyboard inputs. 1 in main thread and another in other thread as it doesn't get closed even though the thread is stopped.
So how to close that InputStream so that application should listen for keyboard only in main thread?
Thanx in Advance,
Sameer Mahajan

Answer 1

Not really sure if this works, as your description isn't clear.
But for sockets, the following works :
public void run { //the Threads/Runnable run method
   try {
      //do your stuff
   } finally {
      try {
         is.close(); //supposed 'is' is your InputStream
      } catch (IOException e) {}
}Now, whenever the thread terminates, the InputStream will be closed.
Maybe even if you use Thread.stop(), but this is deprecated,
so better use Thread.interrupt() and flags.