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The CPU automatically interrupts itself all the time to implement the OS thread scheduler
The Java interruption mechanism wakes up a waiting or sleeping thread
If the interrupted thread is not in a blocking call, then:
(a) interrupt() sets the interrupted flag
(b) as soon as the thread makes a blocking call such as Thread.sleep(), InterruptedException is thrown immediately
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