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  2. JDK-8155591

Misleading warning when not overriding close method in interface extending AutoCloseable

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      For the following code:

      interface Foo extends AutoCloseable {
      }

      javac will, when compiling with -Xlint, emit a slightly misleading/confusing warning:

      $ javac -Xlint Foo.java
      Foo.java:1: warning: [try] auto-closeable resource Foo has a member method close() that could throw InterruptedException
      public interface Foo extends AutoCloseable {
             ^
      1 warning

      Given that Foo doesn't even mention close() explicitly the warning is not as helpful as it could/should be.

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              vromero Vicente Arturo Romero Zaldivar
              mikael Mikael Vidstedt
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