On 01/27/2015 05:37 AM, 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.
Does this include test suites? I see a few callers in Fedora in test suites, but only hsqldb as an actual user in the installed JAR files. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security