Making AbstractWatchKey#MAX_EVENT_LIST_SIZE tunable

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Apr 11 06:14:18 UTC 2024



On 10/04/2024 16:35, Fabian Meumertzheim wrote:
> When using WatchService to watch a directory, the 
> AbstractWatchKey#MAX_EVENT_LIST_SIZE constant (value: 512) makes it so 
> that e.g. creating 1000 files in a single watched directory inevitably 
> results in an OVERFLOW event.

BTW: Do you handle the OVERFLOW event and use it to re-scan the directory?

-Alan


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