On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:24:59 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one
>> additional commit since the last revision:
>>
>> 8303175: Move @deprecated above @since; tweak verbiage
>
> src/jdk.unsupported/share/classes/com/sun/nio/file/SensitivityWatchEventModifier.java
> line 40:
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>> 38: * {@code WatchService} is used only on macOS and likely to be removed
>> 39: * in a future release when a version based on the native file event
>> 40: * notification facility becomes available.
>
> I agree it's time to deprecate this extension but I think the reasoning will
> need a few rounds to get right. As background, JDK-8285956 changed the
> default sensitivity from medium to high in JDK 19 so the need to bump the
> sensitivity level (and thus reducing the polling interval) has mostly gone
> away. So maybe we should thinking about changing PollingWatchService it to
> ignore the these modifiers (like it is done with the native implementations).
> If we did that then it would be easy to word the deprecation text as it could
> just say that the modifier originally provided a hint to polling based
> WatchService implementations but is no longer used.
Should the suggested change to PollingWatchService be addressed in the context
of this PR or separately?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12746
