On 01/11/2013 16:33, Christopher Brown wrote:
Hello,
As I understand it, the file watcher service introduced with JDK 7 uses
native (near real-time) notifications on Windows and Linux, but polling on
Mac OS X.
First off, is this correct?
Second, if it is, what is the polling interval on Mac OS X (and can it be
configured)?
As Dan mentioned, we do need to add a native implementation for Mac at
some point (the original Mac port didn't have anything and the polling
implementation is simple implementation when getting a port going or
where the operating system doesn't have a facility).
As regards configuring the polling interval then it can be done on a per
watched directory basis via a JDK-specific WatchEvent.Modifier, see
com.sun.nio.file.SensitivityWatchEventModifier.
-Alan.
