24 Nov
2004
24 Nov
'04
11:09 a.m.
Duncan Coutts writes:
you cannot solve the finalisers problem just by running the finaliser thread to completion (or it'd be done that way already!)
I guess, I was approaching the problem from the wrong side. What I am really interested in are the implications of this fact for the programmer. What I believe to have understood so far is: You have no guarantee that a finalizer you registered will ever be run -- even if the program terminates normally. Is that correct? Or did I misunderstand something? Peter