Integrated: 8295857: Clarify that cleanup code can be skipped when the JVM terminates (e.g. when calling halt())

Brent Christian bchristi at openjdk.org
Mon Dec 12 19:40:44 UTC 2022


On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:25:42 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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: c7aca731
Author:    Brent Christian <bchristi at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/c7aca73177339f931f7dfb6627365548a32874f7
Stats:     10 lines in 1 file changed: 5 ins; 0 del; 5 mod

8295857: Clarify that cleanup code can be skipped when the JVM terminates (e.g. when calling halt())

Reviewed-by: lancea, bpb, naoto, dholmes, smarks

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11218


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