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Comment: REM cost reform

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Failure to perform necessary cleanup at program termination may leave the system in an inconsistent state.

Rule

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Detectable

Repairable

Priority

Level

FIO14-J

Medium

Likely

No

Medium

No

P12

P6

L1

L2

Automated Detection

ToolVersionCheckerDescription
Parasoft Jtest
9.5OPT.CIO, OPT.CCR, OPT.CRWDImplemented
Include Page
Parasoft_V
Parasoft_V
CERT.FIO14.CIO
CERT.FIO14.CCR
CERT.FIO14.CRWD		Close input and output resources in "finally" blocks
Close all "java.io.Closeable" resources in a "finally" block
Close resources as early as possible

Related Guidelines

SEI CERT C Coding Standard

ERR04-C. Choose an appropriate termination strategy

SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard

VOID ERR04-CPP. Choose an appropriate termination strategy

ISO/IEC TR 24772:2010

Termination Strategy [REU]

MITRE CWE

CWE-705, Incorrect Control Flow Scoping

Android Implementation Details

Although most of the code examples are not applicable to the Android platform, the principle is applicable to Android. Aprocess on Android can be terminated in a number of ways: android.app.Activity.finish() and the related finish() methods, android.app.Activity.moveTaskToBack(boolean flag), android.os.Process.killProcess(int pid), and System.exit().

Bibliography

[API 2014]

Class Runtime.exit() 

[ISO/IEC TR 24772:2010]

Section 6.46, "Termination Strategy [REU]"

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