RFR: 8295857: Clarify that cleanup code can be skipped when the JVM terminates (e.g. when calling halt()) [v5]
David Holmes
dholmes at openjdk.org
Wed Dec 7 02:43:58 UTC 2022
On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:15:54 GMT, Brent Christian <bchristi at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> [JDK-8290036](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8290036) documented the shutdown sequence, noting that calling Runtime.halt() skips the shutdown sequence and immediately terminates the VM. Thus, "threads' current methods do not complete normally or abruptly; no finally clause of any method is executed".
>>
>> One ramification of this is that resources within try-with-resource blocks will not be released. It would be good to state this explicitly.
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> Brent Christian has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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> put examples into a list, in class doc only, not halt()
One nit but otherwise seems fine to me.
Thanks.
src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Runtime.java line 98:
> 96: * <li>{@code finally} clauses are not executed;</li>
> 97: * <li>{@linkplain Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler uncaught exception handlers} are not run; and</li>
> 98: * <li>resources opened with try-with-resources are not {@linkplain AutoCloseable close}d;</li>
Having the 'd' outside the link text looks very odd to me.
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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11218
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