* gnu/java/nio/channels/FileChannelImpl.java (finalize): New method.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 99fd3a3f6..4dcef7f56 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-05-02  Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>
+
+	* gnu/java/nio/channels/FileChannelImpl.java (finalize): New method.
+
 2004-05-01  Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>
 
 	* javax/swing/AbstractButton.java: Replace special HTML entities with
diff --git a/gnu/java/nio/channels/FileChannelImpl.java b/gnu/java/nio/channels/FileChannelImpl.java
index 2a27e1dd1..ef5f5d79a 100644
--- a/gnu/java/nio/channels/FileChannelImpl.java
+++ b/gnu/java/nio/channels/FileChannelImpl.java
@@ -131,6 +131,14 @@ public final class FileChannelImpl extends FileChannel
     
   protected native void implCloseChannel() throws IOException;
 
+  /**
+   * Makes sure the Channel is properly closed.
+   */
+  protected void finalize() throws IOException
+  {
+    this.close();
+  }
+
   public int read (ByteBuffer dst) throws IOException
   {
     int result;