Hi Christoph,

On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, Thiede, Christoph wrote:

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> Simple question, probably we already have a helper method for it, but I did not found any yet:
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> Often, way too often, I encounter some old code (or some stupid code written by myself) that uses #readStream to read a file and forgets to close it again.
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> Apart from the fact that #readStream is a quite dangerous selector, I wish I could find these unclosed file streams and close them manually without restarting my entire image.
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> Is there any quick way to do this? "Smalltalk snapshot: false andQuit: false" does not seem to do the trick, and I would prefer a less brutal approach.
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> Something like "Utilities exploreUnclosedFileStreams" would be perfect ...

Try this: StandardFileStream registry.
Note that you can't just close all files there, but the files you are 
looking for are there.


Levente

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> Best,
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> Christoph
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