Finding out who calls jvm shutdown hook

Question

I have Windows Desktop application based on Java.

I have kept defaultuncaughtexceptionahandler and shutdown hook in my application.

I have some user called exit points like , user clicks on exit, some error conditions etc. All the user exit points have proper logs which will be followed by the log in shutdown hook.

Now for one of my user the application is getting exited from time to time . here user is not calling any user exit points. Shutdown hook logs are printed. There is no exception from defaultuncaughtexception handler.

I am not able to find who calls the system.exit and hence the shutdown hook . Can i somehow find what calls the shutdown hook or system.exit () ? Printing of shutdown hooks makes me think that is a proper jvm shutdown not an abrupt one.

Best Regards, Saurav

But shouldn't then uncaught exception handler catch the uncaught exception ?...also the logs shows different scenario before the system exit happens — saurav, Feb 07 '17 at 13:56
@DaveNewton Why would you need to throw/catch it? Just create the exception and print its stacktrace, or even easier to type (but does the same), call `Thread.dumpStack()` — Erwin Bolwidt, Feb 07 '17 at 14:23

Holger · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-08T11:29:42.633

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If you suspect that someone invokes System.exit(…) or a similar function explicitly, you can intercept it with a SecurityManager:

System.setSecurityManager(new SecurityManager() {
    @Override
    public void checkExit(int status) {
        new Exception("exit attempt with return code "+status).printStackTrace();
    }
    // note that all dedicated check... methods delegate to the two below,
    // so overriding these is sufficient to enable all other actions
    @Override
    public void checkPermission(Permission perm, Object context) { }

    @Override
    public void checkPermission(Permission perm) { }
});

This, however, will not intercept shutdown caused by external events, like a TERM signal, etc.

edited Feb 08 '17 at 11:29

answered Feb 07 '17 at 14:32

Holger

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Thanks a lot Holger its working but i the downside is that i have to completely extend a security manager to relax other methods of it – saurav Feb 08 '17 at 11:22
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Oh, I forgot about that aspect. See my updated answer. – Holger Feb 08 '17 at 11:29
not working for now. – mazend Jul 22 '23 at 09:49
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@mazend can you be more specific? – Holger Jul 23 '23 at 09:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '17 at 17:46

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If you are running OpenJDK / Oracle JDK, you may register a "system" shutdown hook which will dump a thread that has initiated shutdown process:

    sun.misc.SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess().registerShutdownHook(7, true,
            () -> {
                System.out.println(Thread.currentThread());
                new Exception("Who called me?").printStackTrace();
            });

This will work even for external events like Ctrl+C.

answered Feb 07 '17 at 17:46

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I tried ur sample code in my main method of spring boot application. I ma getting 2 error 1."Shutdown hook at slot i already registered" 2.Index out of bound exception if uses i value greater than 10 – StackOverFlow Aug 28 '20 at 13:34

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