Who should be responsible for closing a stream

Question

I\'m writing an application that creates a \"Catalog\" of files, which can be attributed with other meta data files such as attachments and thumbnails.

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Answer 1

My spontaneous thought in this case is that the consumer should hold the responsibility for closing the streams. An IFileSystemAdaptor can't know when the consumer is done using the stream, so it also can't decide when to close it.