[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8287132: Retire Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit so that it always throws UOE

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, David Holmes wrote:

> On 29/07/2022 11:22 am, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > Agreed, In addition to that, I also think (as already mentioned, sorry
> > ,) the runFinalizerOnExit() should be a NOP or allow a system property to
> > turn it into a nop.
> 
> This change has already been proposed and accepted by the JCP as part of SE 8
> Maintenance Release 4:

And that’s fine for the reference implementation.

However, *this*, here, is about the real-world real-existing OpenJDK
which real applications use, and which is in security/bugfixes only
mode and therefore needs to not break existing applications. It’s not
only perfectly fine but even, to some point, expected that different
decisions are taken, for compatibility reasons mostly.

bye,
//mirabilos
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