Re: [pdf-devel] FS#24 Filesystem module unit test implemetation / first patch

[derhans]

> On Tuesday 28 July 2009 10:18:19 address@hidden wrote:
>> While running the tests I encountered something strange. The test for
>> pdf_fsys_get_temp_file_name() failed because the function returned NULL
>> (pdf_fsys_file_open_005 failed for the same reason). When I set the
>> CK_FORK environment varaible to "no" in order to debug this, all test
>> ran
>> fine?!
> I've seen problems that change depending on CK_FORK.
>
> Lets look at this. When you run "normally", the tests get run as a forked
> process. This means that they are not impacted by other tests. That isn't
> the
> case with CK_FORK="no".
>
> Perhaps what is happening is that some other test(s) are performing
> initialisation that helps your test pass?
>
> Brad

Hi,

you're right. pdf_fsys_disk_get_temp_path_name() calls
pdf_text_new_from_unicode(), which needs the text module to be initialized
by pdf_text_init(). Some other test running before the failing one called
pdf_init_text() so everything worked with CK_FORK=no. I'll adjust my tests
accordingly.

best regards,

Hans Hohenfeld