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System.runFinalizersOnExit() deprecated.

Posted by Kenneth Liu on 25 Mar 1999, 9:06 AM

I just noticed that as of 1.2 System.runFinalizersOnExit() is deprecated. The reason given in the API is that this method is
unsafe.