[xdebug-general] Re: Code coverage on forked process

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Péter Nagy wrote:

> I'm currently working on a PHP project which uses pcntl_fork() to
> create child process(es) while the code is running. I'm using phpunit
> to test the code which make use of Xdebug's great code coverage
> feature. It seems that either phpunit or xdebug does not collect
> coverage info for the created child process(es).
> I would like to ask your opinion, as I think it should work already
> out-of-the box as the parent process has the coverage report, so
> xdebug and phpunit works fine. As pcntl_fork() creates "copy-on-write"
> process clones I would assume that everything is already set up in the
> child process, so where is the code coverage report gone?

I do not know, I don't think that Xdebug is the culprit here, but
basically that PHP Unit doesn't know how to deal with it. Perhaps
Sebastian (cc-ed) can shed some light on this?

regards,
Derick

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