Arne Vajh?j schrieb:
If what you want is not in the docs, then it
is not broken as you claim.
Its simply broken because of the following
chain of reasoning.
- InputStream/OutputStream are supposed
to be blocking IO in contrast to NIO.
- When a shutdown sequence is initiated
no InputStream/OutputStream is killed
they remain blocking in case they were
already blocking.
so that the shutdown hooks can gracefully
terminate their service. For example
a goodbye sequence with a web server, etc..
- SIGINT when available, by default
initiates a shutdown sequence.
- The Windows behaviour for CONIN$ violates
the above, since during SIGINT the
CONIN$ becomes non-blocking in that
it returns EOF.
So this is what is broken here. It contaminates
any sensible use of shutdown hooks as described
here in the case of Windows:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html#addShutdownHook%28java.lang.Thread%29