File watching on Oracle JDK on Mac OS X and other platforms

[Michael Hall]

On Nov 1, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Christopher Brown wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> As I understand it, the file watcher service introduced with JDK 7 uses
> native (near real-time) notifications on Windows and Linux, but polling on
> Mac OS X.
> 
> First off, is this correct?

Yes, polling
> 
> Second, if it is, what is the polling interval on Mac OS X (and can it be
> configured)?

Don't know

This was part of nio.2 for JDK 7. There a couple mailing lists for that.
nio-dev at openjdk.java.net   
nio-discuss at openjdk.java.net    

Michael Hall

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