[JDK-7133447] OSX optimized WatchService

[Christian Stein]

// Posting on behalf of Andres Almiray

Hello everyone,
At the Layrry project we encountered this particular issue while trying to
shed external dependencies and rely on as many JDK-only APIs as possible.

Specifically the OSX WatchService from
https://github.com/gmethvin/directory-watcher is capable of reacting to
directory changes much faster (almost instantaneously at least to the naked
eye) than the OSX WatchService provided by OpenJDK (which takes a couple of
seconds to react, very noticeable).

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7133447 was created close to 9
years ago and no updates have been posted since.
Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with code required to provide a
patch but I’m willing to help testing out any patches and/or with other
tasks that can bring this ticket to a fruitful solution.

Cheers,
Andres
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