I inspected the code path and I think this bug has merit. Consider the
following sample application:

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.commons.io.output.CloseShieldOutputStream;

import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class BrokenShield {
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws IOException {
        File file = File.createTempFile("broken-shield", "txt");

        byte[] arbitraryData = "Hello World ".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

        FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(file);
        BufferedOutputStream bout = new BufferedOutputStream(fout, 99999);
        CloseShieldOutputStream cout = new CloseShieldOutputStream(fout);

        try {
            // This should work because we haven't tried to close the stream
            cout.write(arbitraryData);

            // Here we pretend this is some stupid library that insists on
            // closing a stream when it shouldn't.
            cout.close();

            // After we try to close the stream, new data can't be written to
            // the stream. For example: cout.write(arbitraryData);
            // Would throw an exception like:
            // java.io.IOException: write(72) failed: stream is closed

            // However, if we call flush(), no exception is thrown - this is
            // inconsistent with the behavior of write()
            cout.flush();
        } finally {
            // We properly close the stream we have to use the underlying
            // stream like you would expect.
            fout.close();
        }

        try (FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(file)) {
            String data = IOUtils.toString(fin, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
            System.out.println(data);
        }
    }
}

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Tomas Celaya <tomas.cel...@joyent.com> wrote:
> Would anyone mind taking a look at this issue regarding the flush method on
> ClosedOutputStream?
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-546
>
> The change is relatively trivial and the attached patch includes a test
> case. I understand the impact is significant but I think it would make
> ClosedOutputStream behave more consistently with what a user would expect.
>
> – Tomas Celaya

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