On 6 February 2014 15:04, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:04 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6 February 2014 13:53, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Looking at code like DiskFileItem:684:
>> >
>> >             FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(dfosFile);
>> >             IOUtils.copy(input, output);
>> >
>> > Why is this not:
>> >
>> >             FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(dfosFile);
>> >             try {
>> >                 IOUtils.copy(input, output);
>> >             } finally {
>> >                 input.close();
>> >             }
>> >
>> > ?
>>
>> Oversight?
>>
>> The local Streams.copy() methods do close input and optionally output.
>> Maybe it was thought IO did the same?
>>
>> The close should perhaps be
>>
>> IOUtils.closeQuietly()
>>
>> Are we interested in knowibg about input close() failures?
>>
>
> Good question. I would guess 'yes'. If you write to a file and then cannot
> close it, you might not have flushed it, so the file could be corrupt?

But this is an _input_ file.
Are we interested in close failure once the copy has completed?

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