On Fri, January 8, 2010 at 12:39:41 AM, Andras Becsi wrote: > in the process of making it possible to run more than one instance of > run-webkit-tests at the same time > (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33153), I'm trying to make the > handling > of running httpd processes more platform independent. > My tries failed only on the Leopard bots. Unfortunately I have no access to a > Leopard machine, so I had to guess, but now I have a strong supposition why > the > new script fails. > The Leopard bots (Leopard and Snow Leopard) have set something like this: > TMPDIR=/var/folders/FF/FFsVLEwYHre8vU9Sax877k+++TI/-Tmp-/ shown in the bot > logs > (http://build.webkit.org/builders/SnowLeopard%20Intel%20Release%20%28Tests%29/builds/4018/steps/layout-test/logs/stdio). > My assumption is, that calling File::Spec->tmpdir() in perl returns this > path, > not /tmp as expected, that is why there is no PID file where the script > expects > it to be (httpd.conf sets it to /tmp/WebKit). > Is there any particular reason for setting a non-POSIX standard TMPDIR on > these > machines, especially because Tiger does not set this and thus has no problems > with File::Spec->tmpdir()? Or am I wrong with my assumption?
On Leopard and newer, the tmp directory under /var/folders is a per-user tmp directory (IIRC), which the Perl module apparently prefers over the shared tmp directory at /tmp. If you read the man page for File::Spec, tmpdir() simply returns the first directory in a list, and its implementation is platform-specific. It sounds like this method should not be used if there is code that expects the same directory to be returned on every platform. Dave _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
