When attempting to fail-fast when interrupted, you should preserve the interrupted status of the thread by calling Thread.currentThread().interrupt():

try {
  mightTimeOutOrBeCancelled(); // for example myFuture.get()
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
  Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); // Restore the interrupted status
  throw new MyCheckedException("[describe what task was interrupted]", e);
}

The current code is likely accidentally calling Thread.interrupted(), which clears the interrupt bit. (That is typically a no-op in this situation because the interrupt bit is generally already unset when InterruptedException has been thrown.) thread.interrupt() correctly restores the interrupt bit.

More information:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20201217182342/https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp05236/index.html

• thread.interrupt()

• Thread.interrupted()