Does the destructor allways run

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2 total messages Started by Per Petersson Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:00

#880

Author: Per Petersson
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:00

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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).

P.S. I'm running JDK1.3 Beta on Win NT 4.0 System
Thanks for any comments on this.
Per

Re: Does the destructor allways run

#885

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

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"Per Petersson" <pt98ppe@student.hk-r.se> wrote in message
news:OqmJ4.85$7j.35014@newnews.hk-r.se...
> 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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