Re: Good practice or not to close the file before System.exit(1)?
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> writes:
To take the extreme case of high level code, what is the main
method of an application supposed to do when, through
exceptions or otherwise, it finds out that the program should
terminate with status code 1?
(I already answered this before in one of my posts in this thread.)
One single call of ?System.exit? is justified for this purpose at
the very end of ?main?:
public static void main( final java.lang.String args )
{ ... System.exit( returnCode ); }
. The above code assumes that no more exception is active at
this point. For example:
public static void main( final java.lang.String args )
{ int returnCode = 2; /* "2" indicates internal failure to set
"returnCode" properly to some other value as intended below. */
try { ... returnCode = ... ... }
catch( final java.lang.Exception exception )
{ ... returnCode = ... ... }
catch( ... even catch some other Throwables? ... )
{ ... returnCode = ... ... }
System.exit( returnCode ); }
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