WatchService

[Alan Bateman]

On 22/10/2012 07:42, Dr Heinz M. Kabutz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> are there any plans to implement a native WatchService implementation 
> for the Mac OS X file system?
Eventually, until then the file system provider on Mac will fallback to 
using a simple polling implementation, which is why you are seeing in 
the thread dump.

Michael Hall has been experimenting with an implementation, see:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2012-July/001791.html

I don't know if he's got it to the point yet where it is passing the tests.

-Alan.