On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:21:04 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlah...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> To support JShell and other usecases, the JDK uses JLine, which provides 
> line-editing functionality inside a terminal.
> 
> JLine has several ways to work with the terminal, based on various additional 
> libraries and tools. Most of them are not directly usable inside the JDK, so 
> currently, on non-Windows platforms, the JLine inside the JDK will use 
> external programs, like `stty`, to inspect the terminal's properties and to 
> switch the terminal to raw mode.
> 
> This is slightly problematic, as the external programs might be missing, and 
> while this is not that big problem for JShell, it might be a problem for 
> other potential uses of JLine, like using it inside `System.console()`.
> 
> So, the proposal here is to call the corresponding native methods directly, 
> on selected platforms for now (Linux and Mac OS/X), instead of invoking the 
> external programs. On Windows, this has always been the case, we are using a 
> custom implementation of the interface that maps native and Java function for 
> JNA there, and the proposal is to do the same here. We take the appropriate 
> mapping interface for JNA, and provide hand-written implementation for it, 
> using JNI.
> 
> The Windows implementation is mostly unchanged, the changes are mostly 
> non-Windows only. The overview of the changes is:
>  - `LastErrorException` is moved from the Windows-specific code to the 
> platform-neutral code, as it is used by all the native implementations. This 
> is the only change that directly affects the Windows-specific code
>  -  `unix/classes/jdk/internal/org/jline/terminal/impl/jna/JnaNativePty.java` 
> and 
> `unix/classes/jdk/internal/org/jline/terminal/impl/jna/JnaTerminalProvider.java`
>  are created based on the corresponding files from JLine. In JLine, these 
> files directly call platform-specific implementations, but in this patch, the 
> platform specific code is commented out, and replaced with calls to 
> `JDKNativePty`, which is a new platform-specific class, that delegates to the 
> actual platform-specific implementations. Note the `JnaNativePty.java` and 
> `JnaTerminalProvider.java` already exist in the Windows part, but have 
> different pieces of code commented out, which makes them substantially 
> different.
>  - for Linux and Mac OS/X, there are platform-specific implementations based 
> on the corresponding code from JLine, with the hand-written JNI-based 
> implementation of the JNA-based existing interfaces. They also have an 
> implementation of `JDKNativePty`, which just delegates to the given 
> platform's `"NativePty"` imple...

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: a9705196
Author:    Jan Lahoda <jlah...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/a9705196cea7d6f468b76b1cfff561352ee0b6b2
Stats:     2145 lines in 23 files changed: 2097 ins; 40 del; 8 mod

8306983: Do not invoke external programs when switch terminal to raw mode on 
selected platforms

Co-authored-by: Adam Sotona <asot...@openjdk.org>
Reviewed-by: erikj, vromero, bpb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13687

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