[2/5] include/wine/test.h: Report child process failures using shared memory.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru> writes:

> Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>> >> > As far as I can see ExitProcess returns 'failures' as the child process exit
>> >> > code, but variable 'failures' is not visible from the tests. Do you have a
>> >> > suggestion how to fix that?
>> >>
>> >> You need to report the status a different way. For instance you could
>> >> store it in a file.
>> >
>> > How does this one look like? (In theory this approach could be used
>> > to transfer other child process information to the parent).
>> 
>> Something like this would work, but it should be done in the test that
>> needs it, not in the generic code.
>
> What's wrong with using this code for all tests? And sorry, I don't see
> how I could utilize this in the ExitProcess test since I need to call
> ExitProcess with a not zero exit code and that code is currently used
> to report number of child failures to parent.

The standard test code should be kept as simple as possible. Also
creating extra mappings can potentially influence other tests.

In your parent process you can use whatever mechanism you want to report
failures, you don't have to use the child exit code.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org