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authorSteve Bennetts <steve@lindenlab.com>2009-10-19 12:57:25 -0700
committerSteve Bennetts <steve@lindenlab.com>2009-10-19 12:57:25 -0700
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""\
+@file testrunner.py
+@author Nat Goodspeed
+@date 2009-03-20
+@brief Utilities for writing wrapper scripts for ADD_COMM_BUILD_TEST unit tests
+
+$LicenseInfo:firstyear=2009&license=viewergpl$
+Copyright (c) 2009, Linden Research, Inc.
+$/LicenseInfo$
+"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+def debug(*args):
+ sys.stdout.writelines(args)
+ sys.stdout.flush()
+# comment out the line below to enable debug output
+debug = lambda *args: None
+
+def run(*args, **kwds):
+ """All positional arguments collectively form a command line, executed as
+ a synchronous child process.
+ In addition, pass server=new_thread_instance as an explicit keyword (to
+ differentiate it from an additional command-line argument).
+ new_thread_instance should be an instantiated but not yet started Thread
+ subclass instance, e.g.:
+ run("python", "-c", 'print "Hello, world!"', server=TestHTTPServer(name="httpd"))
+ """
+ # If there's no server= keyword arg, don't start a server thread: simply
+ # run a child process.
+ try:
+ thread = kwds.pop("server")
+ except KeyError:
+ pass
+ else:
+ # Start server thread. Note that this and all other comm server
+ # threads should be daemon threads: we'll let them run "forever,"
+ # confident that the whole process will terminate when the main thread
+ # terminates, which will be when the child process terminates.
+ thread.setDaemon(True)
+ thread.start()
+ # choice of os.spawnv():
+ # - [v vs. l] pass a list of args vs. individual arguments,
+ # - [no p] don't use the PATH because we specifically want to invoke the
+ # executable passed as our first arg,
+ # - [no e] child should inherit this process's environment.
+ debug("Running %s...\n" % (" ".join(args)))
+ sys.stdout.flush()
+ rc = os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, args[0], args)
+ debug("%s returned %s\n" % (args[0], rc))
+ return rc