FindBugs: "may fail to close stream" - is this valid in case of InputStream?

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Published on 2010-04-03T09:44:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 9:53 UTC
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In my Java code, I start a new process, then obtain its input stream to read it:

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));

FindBugs reports an error here:

may fail to close stream
Pattern id: OS_OPEN_STREAM, type: OS, category: BAD_PRACTICE

Must I close the InputStream of another process? And what's more, according to its Javadoc, InputStream#close() does nothing. So is this a false positive, or should I really close the input stream of the process when I'm done?

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