Time to retire System.runFinalizersOnExit?

[Florian Weimer]

On 01/27/2015 05:37 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> System.runFinalizationOnExit has been deprecated since 1998 (JDK 1.2)
> and this method is inherently unsafe.  I am thinking to propose this method
> in JDK 9 to throw UnsupportedOperationException.
> 
> I believe it's rare for existing applications using
> System.runFinalizationOnExit.
> My analysis on Maven Central ~315K artifacts that show about ~15 unique
> artifacts calling System.runFinalizationOnExit while they all come from
> only 5 classes.

Does this include test suites?

I see a few callers in Fedora in test suites, but only hsqldb as an
actual user in the installed JAR files.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security