How to write test cases for ensuing stream's/socket's closure either in catch block or finally block

Hi All, How to write test cases for the scenarios such as throwing an IOException from the try block and ensuing that corresponding stream's/socket's closure either in catch block or in finally block. Do we need to write test cases for these scenarios in order to submit patches? Thanks in

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Re: How to write test cases for ensuing stream's/socket's closure either in catch block or finally block

Moving hdfs-dev@ and mapreduce-dev@ to Bcc: to avoid cross-postings. >From what I understand you want to have a test case which demonstrates that whatever socket/stream connections were opened are properly closed in case of IOException? I guess one of many possibilities would be to check if a conn