Recent Java 9 commit (e5b66323ae45) breaks fsync on directory

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/05/2015 17:48, Robert Muir wrote:
> :
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> Separately, the addition of an explicit api for this is a fantastic
> idea, but its no solution for users on the existing api.
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JDK 9 is not planned to ship until 2016 so if there is a new API then I 
would hope this is time enough for Lucene to add support. For now then I 
think we need to come up with the right API for this. We can see later 
if we want to get the undocumented behavior to also work in JDK 9.

-Alan