setOut() and redirectOutput() together

[Peter Levart]

That's right.

System.setOut(OutputStream) only assigns some OutputStream object to the 
System.out field, so any Java code using System.out to retrieve the 
OutputStream will use the newly set OuputStream. 
ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT on the other hand, tells ProcessBuilder 
where to redirect the standard output of the subprocess when it is 
started. This has nothing to do with System.out field except that by 
default the field holds an OutputStream object that outputs to the 
standard output of the java process and that is also where 
ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT instructs ProcessBuilder to redirect the 
output of the started subprocess (inherits the output of the java 
process). In other words: the "target" of the default System.out and 
subprocess redirected output when using ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT 
is the same. When you change System.out, you change it's target, but 
that doesn't change where ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT redirects to.

Regards, Peter

On 05/28/2015 12:48 PM, Dawid Weiss wrote:
> Your code makes the native app inherit native stdout/err process
> descriptors, you need to pipe the output from your native app to Java
> and then redirect the output to wherever you wish (byte array for
> example).
>
> In other words, Redirect.PIPE + pipe code.
>
> Dawid
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
>> I am writing something like this
>>
>>      ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>>      System.setOut(out);
>>
>>      System.out.println("Hello");
>>
>>      ProcessBuilder pb1 = new ProcessBuilder("./native-app");
>>      pb1.redirectOutput(ProcessBuilder.Redirect.INHERIT);
>>
>>      pb1.start();
>>
>> Now "Hello" no longer shows on screen, but the output of "native-app" still
>> shows up there. What else shall I do?
>>
>> This is Ubuntu 14.04.2.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Max