Test2::Harness::IPC(3)

NAME
Test2::Harness::IPC - Base class for modules that control child processes.

DESCRIPTION
This module is the base class for all parts of Test2::Harness that have to do process management.

ATTRIBUTES

$pid = $ipc->pid
    The root PID of the IPC object.

$hashref = $ipc->handlers
    Custom signal handlers specific to the IPC object.

$hashref = $ipc->procs
    Hashref of "$pid => $proc" where $proc is an instance of Test2::Harness::IPC::Proc.

$hashref = $ipc->procs_by_cat
    Hashref of "$category => { $pid => $proc }".

$hashref = $ipc->waiting
    Hashref of processes that have finished, but have not been handled yet.

    This is an implementation detail you should not rely on.

$float = $ipc->wait_time
    How long to sleep between loops when in a wait cycle.

$bool = $ipc->started
    True if the IPC process has started.

$ipc->sig_count
    Implementation detail, used to break wait loops when signals are received.

METHODS

$ipc->start
    Start the IPC management (Insert signal handlers).

$ipc->stop
    Stop the IPC management (Remove signal handlers).

$ipc->set_sig_handler($sig, sub { ... })
    Set a custom signal handler. This is a safer version of "local %SIG{$sig}" for use with IPC.

    The callback will get exactly one argument, the name of the signal that was recieved.

$ipc->handle_sig($sig)
    Handle the specified signal. Will cause process exit if the signal has no handler.

$ipc->killall()
$ipc->killall($sig)
    Kill all tracked child process with the given signal. "TERM" is used if no signal is specified.

    This will not wait on the processes, you must call "$ipc->wait()".

$ipc->check_timeouts
    This is a no-op on the IPC base class. This is called every loop of "$ipc->wait". If you subclass the IPC class you can fill this in to make processes timeout if needed.

$ipc->check_for_fork
    This is used a lot internally to check if this is a forked process. If this is a forked process the IPC object is completely reset with no remaining internal state (except signal handlers).

$ipc->set_proc_exit($proc, @args)
    Calls "$proc->set_exit(@args)". This is called by "$ipc->wait". You can override it to add custom tasks when a process exits.

$int = $ipc->wait()
$int = $ipc->wait(%params)
    Wait on processes, return the number found.

    Default is non-blocking.

    Options:

    timeout => $float
        If a blocking paremeter is provided this can be used to break the wait after a timeout. Time::HiRes is used, so timeout is in seconds with decimals.

    all => $bool
        Block until ALL processes are done.

    cat => $category
        Block until at least 1 process from the category is complete.

    all_cat => $category
        Block until ALL processes from the category are complete.

    block => $bool
        Block until at least 1 process is complete.

$ipc->watch($proc)
    Add a process to be monitored.

$proc = $ipc->spawn($proc)
$proc = $ipc->spawn(%params)
    In the first form $proc is an instance of Test2::Harness::IPC::Proc that provides spawn_params().

    In the second form the following params are allowed:

    Anything supported by run_cmd() in Test2::Harness::Util::IPC.

    process_class => $CLASS
        Default is Test2::Harness::IPC::Process.

    command => $command
        Program command to call. This is required.

    env_vars => { ... }
        Specify custom environment variables for the new process.

SOURCE
The source code repository for Test2-Harness can be found at http://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Harness/.

MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2020 Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/