package StartXDummy; # vim:ts=4:sw=4:expandtab use strict; use warnings; use Exporter 'import'; use Time::HiRes qw(sleep); use v5.10; our @EXPORT = qw(start_xdummy); # reads in a whole file sub slurp { open(my $fh, '<', shift) or return ''; local $/; <$fh>; } =head2 start_xdummy($parallel) Starts C<$parallel> (or number of cores * 2 if undef) Xdummy processes (see the file ./Xdummy) and returns two arrayrefs: a list of X11 display numbers to the Xdummy processes and a list of PIDs of the processes. =cut sub start_xdummy { my ($parallel) = @_; my @displays = (); my @childpids = (); # Yeah, I know it’s non-standard, but Perl’s POSIX module doesn’t have # _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF. my $cpuinfo = slurp('/proc/cpuinfo'); my $num_cores = scalar grep { /model name/ } split("\n", $cpuinfo); # If /proc/cpuinfo does not exist, we fall back to 2 cores. $num_cores ||= 2; $parallel ||= $num_cores * 2; # First get the last used display number, then increment it by one. # Effectively falls back to 1 if no X server is running. my ($displaynum) = reverse ('0', sort ); $displaynum =~ s/.*(\d)$/$1/; $displaynum++; say "Starting $parallel Xdummy instances, starting at :$displaynum..."; for my $idx (0 .. ($parallel-1)) { my $pid = fork(); die "Could not fork: $!" unless defined($pid); if ($pid == 0) { # Child, close stdout/stderr, then start Xdummy. close STDOUT; close STDERR; # We use -config /dev/null to prevent Xdummy from using the system # Xorg configuration. The tests should be independant from the # actual system X configuration. exec './Xdummy', ":$displaynum", '-config', '/dev/null'; exit 1; } push(@childpids, $pid); push(@displays, ":$displaynum"); $displaynum++; } # Wait until the X11 sockets actually appear. Pretty ugly solution, but as # long as we can’t socket-activate X11… my $sockets_ready; do { $sockets_ready = 1; for (@displays) { my $path = "/tmp/.X11-unix/X" . substr($_, 1); $sockets_ready = 0 unless -S $path; } sleep 0.1; } until $sockets_ready; return \@displays, \@childpids; } 1