Thrown when a thread is waiting, sleeping, or otherwise occupied, and the thread is interrupted, either before or during the activity. Occasionally a method may wish to test whether the current thread has been interrupted, and if so, to immediately throw this exception. The following code can be used to achieve this effect:

  if (Thread.interrupted())  // Clears interrupted status!
      throw new InterruptedException();
 

version	1.17, 11/17/05
since	JDK1.0
See also	wait(), wait(long), wait(long, int), sleep(long), interrupt(), interrupted()