Curious question, why did this happen when I didn't close the output stream...

[blazedaces]

Hey, I was using printwriter and was having problems. It seemed to print onto my file only what seemed like 3/4 of the document. It was supposed to print certain words/"\n" depending on what was read from a fileReader (which I did close).

After I realized my obvious error I closed it when it was supposed to be finished. I still did not expect that to fix my problem. It just seemed odd.

I know that you're always supposed to close any stream/file or anything that is opened or whatever else should be included in that category.

Still, can anyone explain to me, just out of curiosity, what exactly happened?

Thank you for your time and knowledge,

-blazed

[JosAH]

When the JVM halts it is not guaranteed that objects' finalizers are invoked. The
OS takes care that native open file descriptors are closed after their associated
buffers are flushed, but no action is taken (and can't be taken by the OS) when
a Java BufferedWriter (or similar) still has pending data in its non-native buffers
roaming around somewhere.

kind regards,

Jos

[blazedaces]

When the JVM halts it is not guaranteed that objects' finalizers are invoked. The
OS takes care that native open file descriptors are closed after their associated
buffers are flushed, but no action is taken (and can't be taken by the OS) when
a Java BufferedWriter (or similar) still has pending data in its non-native buffers
roaming around somewhere.

kind regards,

Jos

Thank you.

(My message has to be 20 characters long, but I wanted to only say thank you anyways)

-blazed

[JosAH]

Thank you.

(My message has to be 20 characters long, but I wanted to only say thank you anyways)

-blazed

You could've written 'thank you' twice (but don't forget the dot then ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

[blazedaces]

Is there an obvious, yet I don't see it, way to edit the title of my thread? I didn't realize you can't put tags/italicize inside a title. Maybe I did it wrong, but if so, what did I do wrong and can I edit it so I can fix it?

If not, don't worry about it, it's no big deal.

-blazed

[r035198x]

Is there an obvious, yet I don't see it, way to edit the title of my thread? I didn't realize you can't put tags/italicize inside a title. Maybe I did it wrong, but if so, what did I do wrong and can I edit it so I can fix it?

If not, don't worry about it, it's no big deal.

-blazed

You can only edit your post within 5 minutes of having posted it.
You cannot (I'm not too sure) edit the thread title. If you need to do any of the above just contact a moderator or Admin by PM and they will be able to make the changes for you.

[JosAH]

Is there an obvious, yet I don't see it, way to edit the title of my thread? I didn't realize you can't put tags/italicize inside a title. Maybe I did it wrong, but if so, what did I do wrong and can I edit it so I can fix it?

If not, don't worry about it, it's no big deal.

-blazed

As far as I know the title text is used as it is, i.e.no special processing there.
(which is a good thing btw, because we don't want layouts etc, screwed up by
humongous pictures in titles etc.)

kind regards,

Jos

[blazedaces]

You can only edit your post within 5 minutes of having posted it.
You cannot (I'm not too sure) edit the thread title. If you need to do any of the above just contact a moderator or Admin by PM and they will be able to make the changes for you.

In this case, it's not important enough. Thank you very much for the information.

As far as I know the title text is used as it is, i.e.no special processing there.
(which is a good thing btw, because we don't want layouts etc, screwed up by
humongous pictures in titles etc.)

kind regards,

Jos

Good point... Thank you as well

-blazed