Parallel execution of unittests

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 01 May 2014 12:07:19 -0400, Dicebot <public at dicebot.lv> wrote:

> On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 15:37:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 5/1/14, 8:04 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 14:55:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 5/1/14, 1:34 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>>>> I have just recently went through some of out internal projects  
>>>>> removing
>>>>> all accidental I/O tests for the very reason that /tmp was full
>>>>
>>>> Well a bunch of stuff will not work on a full /tmp. Sorry, hard to
>>>> elicit empathy with a full /tmp :o). -- Andrei
>>>
>>> So you are OK with your unit tests failing randomly with no clear
>>> diagnostics?
>>
>> I'm OK with my unit tests failing on a machine with a full /tmp. The  
>> machine needs fixing. -- Andrei
>
> It got full because of tests (surprise!). Your actions?

It would be nice to have a uniform mechanism to get a unique  
system-dependent file location for each specific unit test.

The file should automatically delete itself at the end of the test.

-Steve