RFR: 8293067: (fs) Implement WatchService using system library (macOS)

Wed Oct 5 17:31:22 UTC 2022

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 11:36:48 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> My primary concern with this approach is that it doesn't give a lot of advantage over `PollingWatchService` when you need to watch for changes in a very deep hierarchy of directories

Could the upcall be replaced for example with a `socketpair` where the native code writes the event data to one end, and the Java code polls the other end and reads the event data?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10140