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Reputation: 1729

Should I close all of my resources when exiting the application?

I have an application which is communicating via a COM Port.

When the user exits my application, should the app clean/close everything?

If I don't do this, is my application security compromised?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 447

Answers (1)

Rodrigo Sasaki
Rodrigo Sasaki

Reputation: 7226

The general rule is to always close every resource. The thing is you can never really know if it could be exploited and how. But it's best not to take that chance.

When I work with IO, open streams and relatives I like to properly flush them and close them always. You can avoid some hard to identify bugs this way.

This is oftenly done in a finally block for exactly that reason. If the execution throws exceptions or not, you want everything closed at the end.

Upvotes: 5

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