From d77ce4b9989d143c7b5ab7640bd6c0cbe261e458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Dahl <ry@tinyclouds.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:06:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #1860. Remove process.writeError

Breaks a few tests in "make test-message"
---
 lib/console.js             |  3 +--
 lib/util.js                |  4 ++--
 src/node.cc                | 34 ----------------------------------
 test/simple/test-buffer.js |  6 +++---
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/console.js b/lib/console.js
index 7c6134a47e8..ac8912f828e 100644
--- a/lib/console.js
+++ b/lib/console.js
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 // OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE
 // USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-var writeError = process.writeError;
 var util = require('util');
 
 exports.log = function() {
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ exports.info = exports.log;
 
 
 exports.warn = function() {
-  writeError(util.format.apply(this, arguments) + '\n');
+  process.stderr.write(util.format.apply(this, arguments) + '\n');
 };
 
 
diff --git a/lib/util.js b/lib/util.js
index 07d14213994..a13a70d3d84 100644
--- a/lib/util.js
+++ b/lib/util.js
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ exports.puts = function() {
 
 
 exports.debug = function(x) {
-  process.writeError('DEBUG: ' + x + '\n');
+  process.stderr.write('DEBUG: ' + x + '\n');
 };
 
 
 var error = exports.error = function(x) {
   for (var i = 0, len = arguments.length; i < len; ++i) {
-    process.writeError(arguments[i] + '\n');
+    process.stderr.write(arguments[i] + '\n');
   }
 };
 
diff --git a/src/node.cc b/src/node.cc
index cd3bef5d40a..4cfcb317b54 100644
--- a/src/node.cc
+++ b/src/node.cc
@@ -1330,38 +1330,6 @@ Local<Value> ExecuteString(Handle<String> source, Handle<Value> filename) {
 }
 
 
-/* STDERR IS ALWAY SYNC ALWAYS UTF8 */
-static Handle<Value> WriteError (const Arguments& args) {
-  HandleScope scope;
-
-  if (args.Length() < 1) {
-    return Undefined();
-  }
-
-  String::Utf8Value msg(args[0]->ToString());
-
-  ssize_t r;
-  size_t written = 0;
-  while (written < (size_t) msg.length()) {
-    r = write(STDERR_FILENO, (*msg) + written, msg.length() - written);
-    if (r < 0) {
-      if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EIO) {
-#ifdef __POSIX__
-        usleep(100);
-#else
-        Sleep(100);
-#endif
-        continue;
-      }
-      return ThrowException(ErrnoException(errno, "write"));
-    }
-    written += (size_t)r;
-  }
-
-  return True();
-}
-
-
 static Handle<Value> Chdir(const Arguments& args) {
   HandleScope scope;
 
@@ -2174,8 +2142,6 @@ Handle<Object> SetupProcessObject(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   NODE_SET_METHOD(process, "chdir", Chdir);
   NODE_SET_METHOD(process, "cwd", Cwd);
 
-  NODE_SET_METHOD(process, "writeError", WriteError);
-
   NODE_SET_METHOD(process, "umask", Umask);
 
 #ifdef __POSIX__
diff --git a/test/simple/test-buffer.js b/test/simple/test-buffer.js
index 23a0d84a14b..b9f6ee042df 100644
--- a/test/simple/test-buffer.js
+++ b/test/simple/test-buffer.js
@@ -259,11 +259,11 @@ assert.equal(f.toString('ucs2'), 'привет');
 var f = new Buffer([0, 0, 0, 0, 0]);
 assert.equal(f.length, 5);
 var size = f.write('あいうえお', 'ucs2');
+var charsWritten = Buffer._charsWritten; // Copy value out.
 console.error('bytes written to buffer: %d     (should be 4)', size);
-console.error('chars written to buffer: %d     (should be 2)',
-    Buffer._charsWritten);
+console.error('chars written to buffer: %d     (should be 2)', charsWritten);
 assert.equal(size, 4);
-assert.equal(Buffer._charsWritten, 2);
+assert.equal(charsWritten, 2);
 assert.deepEqual(f, new Buffer([0x42, 0x30, 0x44, 0x30, 0x00]));