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[jira] [Created] (IO-470) Using WatchService in Tailer instead of polling

Jeremiah Orr created IO-470:
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             Summary: Using WatchService in Tailer instead of polling
                 Key: IO-470
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-470
             Project: Commons IO
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Utilities
    Affects Versions: 2.4
            Reporter: Jeremiah Orr
             Fix For: 2.5


Tailer would benefit from using Java 7's WatchService to detect file changes instead of polling at a set interval. Tailer could respond quicker to changes, and it would save the system from constant polling. This of course would mean that commons-io would require Java 7.

I don't know what the future release plans are for commons-io; if there's an upcoming version that will require Java 7, I'll happily make this change myself.



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