>>>>> "Jeroen" == Jeroen Frijters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jeroen> BTW, the design of the 1.0 I/O classes is less than Jeroen> stellar. Since the FileDescriptor class is the owner of the Jeroen> native resource, it should have had a finalizer, instead of Jeroen> FileInputStream and FileOutputStream (for some reason Jeroen> RandomAccessFile doesn't have a finalizer). It isn't a compatibility problem to decide what class should have a nontrivial finalizer. We're free to rearrange things here. In libgcj we have a finalizer in FileDescriptor. I think this is the only place you should have a finalizer that closes the underlying native file descriptor. Otherwise you run into problems here and there; we had some bug reports about this a couple years ago. Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
