On 27.01.2015 07:37, 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.
I think while the use case for runFinalizationOnExit(true) is weird to begin with, there seems to be a valid reason to enforce the finalizers to run at the end, e.g. to properly free the *critical* underlying resources. At this point rFOE(true) trick is, while unsafe, still operational, right? If we are to remove rFOE(true) escape hatch, what do we propose users to do? Thanks, -Aleksey.
