MumbleCloseable

[Remi Forax]

On 06/28/2013 11:05 PM, Joe Bowbeer wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com 
> <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>         1. What happens if close needs to throw an exception?  Why is
>         this form
>         of close different from others?
>
>
>     It was a mistake from Day 1 to allow Reader.close() and friends to
>     throw anything checked.  I mean, what could a caller *possibly do*
>     to respond to such an exception?  Close it again?  OK, live and learn.
>
>
> Treat it like the IOException that it is!  How does an app respond to 
> IO exceptions?  They often give the user the chance to try again... 
>  They generally don't silently ignore or crash.
>
> The proper handling of code like this involves a try-finally (resource 
> management) nested inside a try-catch (to manage IO exception), in 
> which case the IOException on close does not need special handling.

This is older than Java Day 1, Unix close() can return 1 with errno=EIO.

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