Debug::Fork::Tmux - Makes fork() in debugger to open a new Tmux window
This documentation refers to the module contained in the distribution Debug-Fork-Tmux version 1.000000.
#!/usr/bin/perl -d
#
# ABSTRACT: Debug the fork()-contained code in this file
#
# Make fork()s debuggable with Tmux
use Debug::Fork::Tmux;
# See what happens in your debugger then...
fork;
The real usage example of this module is:
perl -MDebug::Fork::Tmux -d your_script.pl
The Perl's standard debugger requires additional stuff when the debugged Perl program use the fork() built-in.
This module is about to solve the trouble which visible like this:
######### Forked, but do not know how to create a new TTY. ######### Since two debuggers fight for the same TTY, input is severely entangled. I know how to switch the output to a different window in xterms, OS/2 consoles, and Mac OS X Terminal.app only. For a manual switch, put the name of the created TTY in $DB::fork_TTY, or define a function DB::get_fork_TTY() returning this. On UNIX-like systems one can get the name of a TTY for the given window by typing tty, and disconnect the shell from TTY by sleep 1000000.
OS/2 is a fun for me but in the past. Mac OS X is a more chance but still isn't real. And for xterm ... who wants to keep it on your server? Gimme some stones to throw on that one.
But the pseudo-terminal device isn't much about GUIs by its nature so the problem behind the bars of the perl5db.pl report ( see more detailed problem description at the PerlMonks thread ) is the consoles management. It's a kind of a tricky, for example, to start the next ssh session initiated from the machine serving as an sshd server for the existing session.
Thus we kind of have to give a chance to the consoles management with a software capable to run on a server machine without as much dependencies as an xterm. This module is a try to pick the Tmux windows manager for such a task.
All of the following are functions:
DB::get_fork_TTY()Finds new TTY for the fork()ed process.
Takes no arguments. Returns Str name of the tty device of the <tmux>'s new window created for the debugger's new process.
Sets the $DB::fork_TTY to the same Str value.
_spawn_tty()Creates a TTY device and returns Str its name.
_tmux_new_window()Creates a given tmux window and returns Str its id/number.
_tmux_window_tty( $window_id )Finds a given tmux window's tty name and returns its Str name based on a given window id/number typically from "_tmux_new_window()".
_read_from_cmd( $cmd => @args )Takes the list containing the Str system() command and Array its arguments and executes it. Reads Str the output and returns it. Throws if no output or if the command failed.
_croak_on_cmd( $cmd => @args, $happen )Takes the Str command, Array its arguments and Str the reason of its failure, examines the $? and dies with explanation on the system() command failure.
The module requires the Tmux window manager for the console to be present in the system.
Configuration is made via environment variables, the default is taken for each of them with no such variable is set in the environment:
SPUNGE_TMUX_FQDNThe tmux binary name with the full path.
Default : /usr/local/bin/tmux
SPUNGE_TMUX_CMD_NEWWThe system() arguments for a tmux command for opening a new window and with output of a window address from tmux. String is sliced by spaces to be a list of parameters.
Default : neww -P
SPUNGE_TMUX_CMD_NEWW_EXECThe system() or a shell command to be given to the SPUNGE_TMUX_CMD_NEWW command to be executed in a brand new created window. It should wait unexpectedly and do nothing till the debugger catches the device and puts in into the proper use.
Default : sleep 1000000
SPUNGE_TMUX_CMD_TTYCommand- line parameter(s) for a tmux command to find a tty name in the output. The string is sliced then by spaces. The tmux's window address is added then as the very last argument.
Default : lsp -F #{pane_tty} -t
Typically the error message starts with the command the Debug::Fork::Tmux tried to execute, including the command's arguments.
The command was not taken by the system as an executable binary file.
Command did not output exactly one line of the text.
Command outputs more than one line of the text.
Command outputs exactly one line of the text and the line is empty.
There was failure executing the command
Command was killed by the signal X and the coredump is (not) located in Y.
Command was not failed but there are reasons to throw an error like the wrong command's output.
* Perl 5.6.0+ is available from The Perl website
* Config, Cwd, DB, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, File::Find, File::Spec are available in core Perl distribution version 5.6.0 and later
* Const::Fast is available from CPAN
* Module::Build is available in core Perl distribution since version 5.9.4
* Scalar::Util is available in core Perl distribution since version 5.7.3
* Sort::Versions is available from CPAN
* Test::Exception is available from CPAN
* Test::More is available in core Perl distribution since version 5.6.2
* Test::Most is available from CPAN
* Test::Strict is available from CPAN
* autodie is available in core Perl distribution since version 5.10.1
* Tmux v1.6+ is available from The Tmux website
Most of them can easily be found in your operating system distribution/repository.
You can make new bug reports, and view existing ones, through the web interface at http://bugs.vereshagin.org/product/Debug-Fork-Tmux.
The web site of Debug::Fork::Tmux currently consists of only one page cause it's a very small module.
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Debug::Fork::Tmux
You can email the author of this module at peter@vereshagin.org asking for help with any problems you have.
Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to peter@vereshagin.org, or through the web interface at http://bugs.vereshagin.org/product/Debug-Fork-Tmux. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.
The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)
http://gitweb.vereshagin.org/Debug-Fork-Tmux
git clone https://github.com/petr999/Debug-Fork-Tmux.git
Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org>
This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by Peter Vereshagin.
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