RFR: 8293067: (fs) Implement WatchService using system library (macOS) [v8]

Wed Oct 19 05:57:00 UTC 2022

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:24:44 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Maxim Kartashev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   Don't use JavaVM exported from nio_util.c
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> src/java.base/macosx/classes/sun/nio/fs/BsdFileSystem.java line 55:
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>> 53:         throws IOException
>> 54:     {
>> 55:         return new MacOSXWatchService();
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> Is it still intended that there be a system property to enable `MacOSXWatchService` which would be off by default?

There was such a suggestion (not sure about "off by default", though). I guess this should go through CSR review, in which case I'm going to need some guidance.

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