From: "Jeroen Frijters" <jeroen@sumatra.nl>
To: "Stephen Crawley" <crawley@dstc.edu.au>,
"Mark Wielaard" <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: "Noa Resare" <noa@resare.com>,
"Mauve Discuss" <mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com>,
<crawley@piglet.dstc.edu.au>, <crawley@piglet.dstc.edu.au>
Subject: RE: gnu/testlet/java/nio/channels/FileChannel/manyopen.java broken
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 06:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D92197D0A6547B44A1567814F851FA687DF4@LEMBU.sumatrasoftware.com> (raw)
Stephen Crawley wrote:
> Java programs that rely on the GC to find / close file handles are
> non-portable and (IMO) broken. A portable program cannot depend on
> the GC running soon enough to get around a problem with running
> out of file descriptors.
While I agree with your general point (and that this test shouldn't be
in Mauve), I would like to add a small footnote:
The nio memory mapped file API *requires* you to rely on the GC to close
the files.
Personally, I happen to think that the API is broken because of this,
but as of 1.4 (haven't looked at 1.5 yet) this is the sad reality.
Regards,
Jeroen
next reply other threads:[~2004-10-11 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-11 6:39 Jeroen Frijters [this message]
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2004-10-08 6:35 Noa Resare
2004-10-08 6:47 ` Stephen Crawley
2004-10-08 10:05 ` Mark Wielaard
2004-10-08 11:07 ` Noa Resare
2004-10-08 17:00 ` Thomas Zander
2004-10-11 0:50 ` Stephen Crawley
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