It's important for sockets, less so for files, but they inherit that behaviour from the specification of the interface (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/1

It's important for sockets, less so for files, but they inherit that behaviour from the specification of the interface (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/docs/api/java.base/java/nio/channels/InterruptibleChannel.html https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/docs/api/java.base...). See an old discussion about that here: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/nio-dev/2018-February/004756.html https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/nio-dev/2018-February/004...