I just want to know, we usually close streams at the end, but why don’t we close System.out PrintStream with System.out.close()?
I just want to know, we usually close streams at the end, but why
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I just want to know, we usually close streams at the end, but why don’t we close System.out PrintStream with System.out.close()?
If you close it you will no longer be able to write to the console, so let’s leave this task to the VM when the process terminates. You should only close streams that you own or have manually created.
System.outis out of your control, so leave it to the creator to take care of.