Re: Does the destructor allways run

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From: Paul Murray
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:00

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"Per Petersson" <pt98ppe@student.hk-r.se> wrote in message
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> I've got the impression that the finalize method doesn't run  if the
object
> dies on program termination.
> What I mean is that if I have an object and then do System.exit()
somewhere
> the finalize method of that object doesnt run .
>
> Could someone please say that I'm wrong (or right).


Yes, that's right. Finalizers are not guarinteed to be run. You can call
System.runFinalizersOnExit(true) to force it, but that's a deprecated method
because of security hassles or something.

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