Bug 25101 – run-webkit-tests should launch DumpRenderTree and the image diff tool in a way compatible with threads.

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Tools / Tests

[David Levin]

run-webkit-tests sets up ENV correctly and launches these programs, but on a perl threads use the main thread's environment instead of the current thread.

[David Levin]

Created attachment 29346 [details]
Proposed fix.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Yeah, this is something ddkilzer or bdash or darin adler would want to review (as our local perl gurus).

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Comment on attachment 29346 [details]
Proposed fix.

Overall this patch looks great, but I have two concerns:

1. The serialization of %ENV using regular expressions is very clever, but I think it would be more straight-forward if Data::Dumper were used to do the serializing, and "eval" to do the deserializing.  The Data::Dumper module is present in all "modern" installations of Perl and it would simplify the code in run-webkit-tests and the utility script (ExecAppWithEnv.pm).  Try this:

$ perl -e 'use Data::Dumper; my $d = Data::Dumper->new([\%ENV], [qw(ENV)]); $d->Indent(0); $d->Purity(1); print $d->Dump();'

Also, instead of using "escape" and "unescape", I think it's clearer to use "serialize" and "deserialize" when describing the process of moving %ENV to the subprocess.

2. Please rename "ExecAppWithEnv.pm" to something that resembles a script name like "execAppWithEnv".  Naming it "ExecAppWithEnv.pm" made me think it was a Perl module, but it's not.  It's a Perl script that is invoked by run-webkit-tests.

r- to resolve the above issues.  Thanks!

[David Levin]

Created attachment 29358 [details]
Proposed fix.

Addressed feedback.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Comment on attachment 29358 [details]
Proposed fix.

r=me  Thanks!

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Comment on attachment 29358 [details]
Proposed fix.

>+        * Scripts/execAppWithEnv.pm: Added.

Oops!  This should just be "Scripts/execAppWithEnv".  :)

[David Levin]

Committed <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/42359>