Test2::Util - Tools used by Test2 and friends.
Collection of tools used by Test2 and friends.
All exports are optional. You must specify subs to import.
- ($success, $error) = try { ... }
- Eval the codeblock, return success or failure, and the error message. This
code protects $@ and $!, they will be restored by the end of the run. This
code also temporarily blocks $SIG{DIE}
handlers.
- protect { ... }
- Similar to try, except that it does not catch exceptions. The idea here is
to protect $@ and $! from changes. $@ and $! will be restored to whatever
they were before the run so long as it is successful. If the run fails $!
will still be restored, but $@ will contain the exception being
thrown.
- CAN_FORK
- True if this system is capable of true or pseudo-fork.
- CAN_REALLY_FORK
- True if the system can really fork. This will be false for systems where
fork is emulated.
- CAN_THREAD
- True if this system is capable of using threads.
- USE_THREADS
- Returns true if threads are enabled, false if they are not.
- get_tid
- This will return the id of the current thread when threads are enabled,
otherwise it returns 0.
- my $file =
pkg_to_file($package)
- Convert a package name to a filename.
- $string = ipc_separator()
- Get the IPC separator. Currently this is always the string
'~'.
- $string = gen_uid()
- Generate a unique id (NOT A UUID). This will typically be the process id,
the thread id, the time, and an incrementing integer all joined with the
"ipc_separator()".
These ID's are unique enough for most purposes. For identical
ids to be generated you must have 2 processes with the same PID generate
IDs at the same time with the same current state of the incrementing
integer. This is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect to happen across
multiple machines, but is quite unlikely to happen on one machine.
This can fail to be unique if a process generates an id, calls
exec, and does it again after the exec and it all happens in less than a
second. It can also happen if the systems process id's cycle in less
than a second allowing 2 different programs that use this generator to
run with the same PID in less than a second. Both these cases are
sufficiently unlikely. If you need universally unique ids, or ids that
are unique in these conditions, look at Data::UUID.
- ($ok, $err) = do_rename($old_name, $new_name)
- Rename a file, this wraps "rename()" in
a way that makes it more reliable cross-platform when trying to rename
files you recently altered.
- ($ok, $err) = do_unlink($filename)
- Unlink a file, this wraps "unlink()" in
a way that makes it more reliable cross-platform when trying to unlink
files you recently altered.
- ($ok, $err) = try_sig_mask { ... }
- Complete an action with several signals masked, they will be unmasked at
the end allowing any signals that were intercepted to get handled.
This is primarily used when you need to make several actions
atomic (against some signals anyway).
Signals that are intercepted:
- 5.10.0
- Perl 5.10.0 has a bug when compiled with newer gcc versions. This bug
causes a segfault whenever a new thread is launched. Test2 will attempt to
detect this, and note that the system is not capable of forking when it is
detected.
- Devel::Cover
- Devel::Cover does not support threads. CAN_THREAD will return false if
Devel::Cover is loaded before the check is first run.
The source code repository for Test2 can be found at
http://github.com/Test-More/test-more/.
Copyright 2019 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.
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