need JavacTask.close()

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    • Type: Enhancement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: P3
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    • Component/s: tools
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      The root cause of JDK-8173141 is that javac creates URLClassLoaders to check for annotation processors, but apparently does not close them.

      This can cause a problem on Windows if any of the jar files referenced by the URLClassLoader are deleted soon afterwards.

            Assignee:
            Christian Stein
            Reporter:
            Jonathan Gibbons
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