The following screenshot shows the result of the execution of the previous example. We can see how the PrimeGenerator thread writes the message and ends its execution when it detects that it has been interrupted. Refer to the following screenshot:
The Thread class has an attribute that stores a boolean value indicating whether the thread has been interrupted or not. When you call the interrupt() method of a thread, you set that attribute to true. The isInterrupted() method only returns the value of that attribute.
The main() method writes information about the status of the interrupted thread. In this case, as this code is ...
