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Ralph Goers commented on LOG4J2-1031:
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Here is what I posted on the mailing list at the time.
"I have been working on the file watching of the scripts today. The more I work
with it the less I like Java’s WatchService. Java makes no guarantees about how
the service works. On my Mac it uses polling - but I don’t see any way to
control the frequency. Furthermore, if you specify a file you will get an
exception - it can only watch directories for changes.
As a consequence I am going to use the same logic we use for monitoring the
configuration file but turn it into a general service. "
> Use Java 7's Watchservice to monitor configuration files and file rollover.
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> Key: LOG4J2-1031
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1031
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Appenders
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Reporter: Ralph Goers
> Assignee: Ralph Goers
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> Now that Log4j requires Java 7 we can begin to take advantage of more of its
> features. One of these is the WatchService
> -http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/WatchService.html.
> This could be used for monitoring changes to the configuration file(s) and by
> the RollingFileAppender.
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