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Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound

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Subject	Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound
Date	2011-08-12 12:08 -0700
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On 8/12/2011 11:19 AM, KevinSimonson wrote:
>  new FileWriter( arguments[ 1])));

> So try running this program and doing various things to the two
> files.  If you can find something that actually generates a
> <IOException>, please, _please_, let me know what you did!

The FileWriter constructor is declared to generate an IOExcpetion.  I 
don't have time to mess with it, but it's likely a large variety of 
network file systems could generate an IO error of various types.

While any other error might be swallowed by the PrintWriter, you are 
briefly exposed to the vagaries file system while that constructor is 
running.

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Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound KevinSimonson <kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-12 08:39 -0700
  Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-08-12 08:54 -0700
  Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-12 08:57 -0700
    Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound KevinSimonson <kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-12 11:19 -0700
      Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-12 12:08 -0700
        Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-12 12:26 -0700
      Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-12 19:35 +0000
  Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-12 12:31 -0700
    Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound KevinSimonson <kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-12 13:10 -0700
  Re: Trying to Understand Purpose of a Catch Block for IOException in the Presence of One for FileNotFound Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-12 14:27 -0700

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