tests: factor out terminal handling from t7006

Other tests besides the pager ones may want to check how we handle
output to a terminal. This patch makes the code reusable.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/test-terminal.perl b/t/test-terminal.perl
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+++ b/t/test-terminal.perl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use IO::Pty;
+use File::Copy;
+
+# Run @$argv in the background with stdout redirected to $out.
+sub start_child {
+	my ($argv, $out) = @_;
+	my $pid = fork;
+	if (not defined $pid) {
+		die "fork failed: $!"
+	} elsif ($pid == 0) {
+		open STDOUT, ">&", $out;
+		close $out;
+		exec(@$argv) or die "cannot exec '$argv->[0]': $!"
+	}
+	return $pid;
+}
+
+# Wait for $pid to finish.
+sub finish_child {
+	# Simplified from wait_or_whine() in run-command.c.
+	my ($pid) = @_;
+
+	my $waiting = waitpid($pid, 0);
+	if ($waiting < 0) {
+		die "waitpid failed: $!";
+	} elsif ($? & 127) {
+		my $code = $? & 127;
+		warn "died of signal $code";
+		return $code - 128;
+	} else {
+		return $? >> 8;
+	}
+}
+
+sub xsendfile {
+	my ($out, $in) = @_;
+
+	# Note: the real sendfile() cannot read from a terminal.
+
+	# It is unspecified by POSIX whether reads
+	# from a disconnected terminal will return
+	# EIO (as in AIX 4.x, IRIX, and Linux) or
+	# end-of-file.  Either is fine.
+	copy($in, $out, 4096) or $!{EIO} or die "cannot copy from child: $!";
+}
+
+if ($#ARGV < 1) {
+	die "usage: test-terminal program args";
+}
+my $master = new IO::Pty;
+my $slave = $master->slave;
+my $pid = start_child(\@ARGV, $slave);
+close $slave;
+xsendfile(\*STDOUT, $master);
+exit(finish_child($pid));