trz update - nio.2 MacFileSystemProvider added kqueue WatchService (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Sun Jul 29 20:54:26 PDT 2012

On 30/07/2012 02:05, Michael Hall wrote:

I have added an implementation of a kqueue based WatchService implementation to my OS X specific nio.2 code.

At this time this code will run a slightly modified version of the openjdk WatchService Basic test code. (See knownissues.txt for more info). This provides a platform specific non-polling native solution to replace the generic polling WatchService currently being provided in Java 7 for OS X. I intend to provide one more WatchService based on FSEvents for OS X. See [1[ for mention of kqueue vs. fsevents use. It looks like you have made good progress. I have not tried your file system provider yet but is the WatchService implementation something that you would be willing to contribute to OpenJDK? I don't know if you have tried to run the unit tests that in the test/java/nio/file/WatchService directory but it would be interesting to see if it passes these tests.

-Alan

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