From 57805dd09f2311f593ec2986121eb279d5881dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: benfry <fry@processing.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:09:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] linux tweak, and improving the speed of siphoning System.out

---
 processing/app/PdeMessageSiphon.java | 11 ++++++++---
 processing/app/PdeRuntime.java       | 14 +++++++++++++-
 processing/todo.txt                  |  5 ++---
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/processing/app/PdeMessageSiphon.java b/processing/app/PdeMessageSiphon.java
index 2927b6fb0..f1cd419bb 100644
--- a/processing/app/PdeMessageSiphon.java
+++ b/processing/app/PdeMessageSiphon.java
@@ -56,9 +56,14 @@ class PdeMessageSiphon implements Runnable {
         //System.err.println(currentLine);
       }
     } catch (Exception e) { 
-      System.err.println("PdeMessageSiphon err " + e);
-      e.printStackTrace();
-      //thread.stop();  // implicit (and no longer supported)
+      // on linux, a "bad file descriptor" message comes up when
+      // closing an applet that's being run externally.
+      // use this to cause that to fail silently since not important
+      if ((PdeBase.platform != PdeBase.LINUX) || 
+          (e.getMessage().indexOf("Bad file descriptor") == -1)) {
+        System.err.println("PdeMessageSiphon err " + e);
+        e.printStackTrace();
+      }
     }
     //System.err.println("siphon thread exiting");
   }
diff --git a/processing/app/PdeRuntime.java b/processing/app/PdeRuntime.java
index db437249c..9e97ca9ac 100644
--- a/processing/app/PdeRuntime.java
+++ b/processing/app/PdeRuntime.java
@@ -75,12 +75,24 @@ public class PdeRuntime implements PdeMessageConsumer {
       thread.start();
     }
 
-    public void run() {    
+    public void run() {
+      byte boofer[] = new byte[1024];
+
       try {
+        while (true) {
+          //int count = input.available();
+          //int offset = 0; 
+          int count = input.read(boofer, 0, boofer.length);
+          if (count == -1) break;
+          System.out.print(new String(boofer, 0, count));
+        }
+
+        /*
         int c;
         while ((c = input.read()) != -1) {
           System.out.print((char) c);
         }
+        */
       } catch (Exception e) { 
         System.err.println("PdeSystemOutSiphon error " + e);
         e.printStackTrace();
diff --git a/processing/todo.txt b/processing/todo.txt
index 2b2f81a20..5e3e8646a 100644
--- a/processing/todo.txt
+++ b/processing/todo.txt
@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@ X   open the discourse board in another window, ask to post the code
 
 X set PATH to include java (!)
 X   external classes currently require expert release
-_   code written for linux, test it
+X   code written for linux, test it
 _   code written for windows, rebuild the exe and test it
-
 _ update the release of jikes that's used
 X   updated for macosx
-_   compile new version for linux
+X   compile new version for linux
 _   compile new version for windows
 
 _ netscape/javascript had to be included for linux and for expert