package StartXServer; # vim:ts=4:sw=4:expandtab use strict; use warnings; use Exporter 'import'; use Time::HiRes qw(sleep); use i3test::Util qw(slurp); use v5.10; our @EXPORT = qw(start_xserver); my @pids; my $x_socketpath = '/tmp/.X11-unix/X'; # forks an X server process sub fork_xserver { my $keep_xserver_output = shift; my $displaynum = shift; my $pid = fork(); die "Could not fork: $!" unless defined($pid); if ($pid == 0) { # Child, close stdout/stderr, then start Xephyr if (!$keep_xserver_output) { close STDOUT; close STDERR; } exec @_; exit 1; } push(@complete_run::CLEANUP, sub { kill(15, $pid); # Unlink the X11 socket, Xdmx seems to leave it there. unlink($x_socketpath . $displaynum); }); push @pids, $pid; return $x_socketpath . $displaynum; } # Blocks until the socket paths specified in the given array reference actually # exist. sub wait_for_x { my ($sockets_waiting) = @_; # Wait until Xdmx actually runs. Pretty ugly solution, but as long as we # can’t socket-activate X11… while (1) { @$sockets_waiting = grep { ! -S $_ } @$sockets_waiting; last unless @$sockets_waiting; sleep 0.1; } } =head2 start_xserver($parallel) Starts C<$parallel> (or number of cores * 2 if undef) Xephyr processes (see https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xephyr/) and returns two arrayrefs: a list of X11 display numbers to the Xephyr processes and a list of PIDs of the processes. =cut sub start_xserver { my ($parallel, $numtests, $keep_xserver_output) = @_; my @displays = (); my @childpids = (); # Yeah, I know it’s non-standard, but Perl’s POSIX module doesn’t have # _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF. my $num_cores; if (-e '/proc/cpuinfo') { my $cpuinfo = slurp('/proc/cpuinfo'); $num_cores = scalar grep { /model name/ } split("\n", $cpuinfo); } # If /proc/cpuinfo does not exist, we fall back to 2 cores. $num_cores ||= 2; # If unset, we use num_cores * 2. $parallel ||= ($num_cores * 2); # If we are running a small number of tests, don’t over-parallelize. $parallel = $numtests if $numtests < $parallel; # First get the last used display number, then increment it by one. # Effectively falls back to 1 if no X server is running. my ($displaynum) = map { /(\d+)$/ } reverse sort glob($x_socketpath . '*'); $displaynum++; say "Starting $parallel Xephyr instances, starting at :$displaynum..."; $SIG{CHLD} = sub { my $child = waitpid -1, POSIX::WNOHANG; @pids = grep { $_ != $child } @pids; return unless @pids == 0; print STDERR "All X server processes died.\n"; print STDERR "Use ./complete-run.pl --parallel 1 --keep-xserver-output\n"; exit 1; }; my @sockets_waiting; for (1 .. $parallel) { my $socket = fork_xserver($keep_xserver_output, $displaynum, 'Xephyr', ":$displaynum", '-screen', '1280x800', '-nolisten', 'tcp'); push(@displays, ":$displaynum"); push(@sockets_waiting, $socket); $displaynum++; } wait_for_x(\@sockets_waiting); return @displays; } 1