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Add an event log soft flush and call it twice per frame in between hard flushes to netplay latency when there are insufficient hardware updates to flush packets in the middle of a frame
author Michael Pavone <pavone@retrodev.com>
date Fri, 08 May 2020 11:40:30 -0700
parents 0433fdd9ba66
children 794ba17f0716
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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include "util.h"
#include "terminal.h"

pid_t child;

void cleanup_terminal()
{
	kill(child, SIGKILL);
	unlink(INPUT_PATH);
	unlink(OUTPUT_PATH);
}

static char init_done;

void force_no_terminal()
{
	init_done = 1;
}

void init_terminal()
{
	if (!init_done) {
		if (!(isatty(STDIN_FILENO) && isatty(STDOUT_FILENO))) {
#ifndef __APPLE__
			//check to see if x-terminal-emulator exists, just use xterm if it doesn't
			char *term = system("which x-terminal-emulator > /dev/null") ? "xterm" : "x-terminal-emulator";
#endif
			//get rid of FIFO's if they already exist
			unlink(INPUT_PATH);
			unlink(OUTPUT_PATH);
			//create FIFOs for talking to helper process in terminal app
			mkfifo(INPUT_PATH, 0666);
			mkfifo(OUTPUT_PATH, 0666);

			//close existing file descriptors
			close(STDIN_FILENO);
			close(STDOUT_FILENO);
			close(STDERR_FILENO);

			child = fork();
			if (child == -1) {
				//error, oh well
				warning("Failed to fork for terminal spawn");
			} else if (!child) {
				//child process, exec our terminal emulator
#ifdef __APPLE__
				execlp("open", "open", "./termhelper", NULL);
#else
				execlp(term, term, "-title", "BlastEm Debugger", "-e", "./termhelper", NULL);
#endif
			} else {
				//connect to the FIFOs, these will block so order is important
				open(INPUT_PATH, O_RDONLY);
				open(OUTPUT_PATH, O_WRONLY);
				atexit(cleanup_terminal);
				if (-1 == dup(STDOUT_FILENO)) {
					fatal_error("failed to dup STDOUT to STDERR after terminal fork");
				}
			}
		}

		init_done = 1;
	}
}