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| author | Andreas Schneider <asn@cryptomilk.org> | 2014-04-15 16:58:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Andreas Schneider <asn@cryptomilk.org> | 2014-04-15 17:01:12 +0200 |
| commit | 4bf87f329493cdbb8acef403be2a26a325da97cc (patch) | |
| tree | 6ce2d56b3ae95442f9405e7c5385f8dfe3be4fa1 /doc | |
| parent | 3488c7fe316c9cae6c6f2891e5df4ee151401a52 (diff) | |
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cmocka: Add CMOCKA_TEST_ABORT env variable to leave threading apps.
BUG: https://open.cryptomilk.org/issues/26
Reviewed-by: Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/doc/mainpage.dox b/doc/mainpage.dox index 4b7acb0..d159bf0 100644 --- a/doc/mainpage.dox +++ b/doc/mainpage.dox @@ -82,4 +82,18 @@ the mock object to return. CMocka provides and API to easily mock code. <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/558106/">Learn more ...</a> +@section main-threads Threading + +cmocka is not thread safe and it is not the goal of it to be it. However if +you use cmocka for writing tests in an application which uses threads, you +can set the following envionment variable: + +<pre> + CMOCKA_TEST_ABORT='1' ./my_threading_test +</pre> + +With this environment variable set to '1', cmocka will call <tt>abort()</tt> if +a test fails. Else it is likely that you will run into deadlocks with mutexes +or other funny errors. + */ |