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Blocked call to Semaphore.acquire produces null InterruptedException message.

 
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This SSCCE creates a Semaphore with one permit, acquires that permit, then starts a thread that also tries to acquire that permit. The new thread therefore blocks until the main thread interrupts it, which deblocks the second thread and causes the second thread's call to acquire to throw an InterruptedException.

Calling the exception object's getMessage method returns a null. If the blocking call to acquire is replaced with a call the Thread.sleep, the exception object's getMessage method returns a string ("sleep interrupted").

Why does the exception object's getMessage method return a null if the interruption occurred while the thread was blocked in a call to acquire?

 
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Semaphore#acquire() calls a method which calls another method which can throw new InterruptedException(). No arguments means no message which will result in Throwable returning null for getMessage().
 
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Ron McLeod wrote:Semaphore#acquire() calls a method which calls another method which can throw new InterruptedException(). No arguments means no message which will result in Throwable returning null for getMessage().


Thanks, Ron! That explains it perfectly. Do you have the source for acquire? I remember being able to step into library routines at one time, but not on my current machine. I must have downloaded something to be able to do that, but can't recall what it was.

Based on your explanation, I'm inclined to see this as a bug. However, it turns out that the javadoc on Throwable.getMessage actually says it may return null. I would never have expected that and wonder if this is an example of a bug becoming a feature by amending the documentation to match the imperfect behavior.
 
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This may not be the latest, but it unlikely that it has changed much if at all: Semaphore#acquire
 
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If you install the JDK, there's an option to install the source code as well, and this option is activated by default. Check your JDK folder for a file called src.zip. That's where most of the JSE source files live.
 
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Yeah, I looked for that. It was present in some of my JDKs, absent in others. Apparently, Oracle is been spotty about including it. I downloaded 1.8.0_66 and it was in that, so I'm back in business.
 
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Odd, I haven't downloaded a JDK in years that didn't include it.
 
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