RFR: 8297275: WatchService delay with PollingWatchService causes test failures

Sat Nov 19 08:06:38 UTC 2022

On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:43:25 GMT, Tyler Steele <tsteele at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This minor change fixes a compliance test failure which was partially addressed by https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/1bb4de2e2868a539846ec48dd43fd623c2ba69a5. However the failure was still observed on select machines. This change addresses the remaining failures by ensuring that any new WatchKey is held until the polling thread becomes active.

This seems to adds a 1s sleep to Path.register. I don't think we want that. Would it be possible to start with a summary of the test failure that you are running into.

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Changes requested by alanb (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10824