7091935: (fs) Polling based WatchService not used on Linux

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Sep 19 11:18:28 PDT 2011


Salter, Thomas A wrote:
> Will it still be compiled at all, by Oracle builds?  We're currently using it as a stop-gap solution until we can do a better performing implementation.  I worry about the code continuing to compile cleanly (not to mention working) if it's not being compiled in the standard builds.
>
> Tom Salter
>   
Yes, it's still built and used on Solaris 10 (but not Solaris 11). I 
believe it is also used in the BSD/Mac port.

-Alan.


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