Improves thread-safe death tests by changing to the original working directory before they are executed; also fixes out-dated comments about death tests.

src/gtest-death-test.cc

@@ -546,11 +546,32 @@ struct ExecDeathTestArgs {
 };
 
 // The main function for a threadsafe-style death test child process.
+// This function is called in a clone()-ed process and thus must avoid
+// any potentially unsafe operations like malloc or libc functions.
 static int ExecDeathTestChildMain(void* child_arg) {
   ExecDeathTestArgs* const args = static_cast<ExecDeathTestArgs*>(child_arg);
   GTEST_DEATH_TEST_CHECK_SYSCALL(close(args->close_fd));
+
+  // We need to execute the test program in the same environment where
+  // it was originally invoked.  Therefore we change to the original
+  // working directory first.
+  const char* const original_dir =
+      UnitTest::GetInstance()->original_working_dir();
+  // We can safely call chdir() as it's a direct system call.
+  if (chdir(original_dir) != 0) {
+    DeathTestAbort("chdir(\"%s\") failed: %s",
+                   original_dir, strerror(errno));
+    return EXIT_FAILURE;
+  }
+
+  // We can safely call execve() as it's a direct system call.  We
+  // cannot use execvp() as it's a libc function and thus potentially
+  // unsafe.  Since execve() doesn't search the PATH, the user must
+  // invoke the test program via a valid path that contains at least
+  // one path separator.
   execve(args->argv[0], args->argv, environ);
-  DeathTestAbort("execve failed: %s", strerror(errno));
+  DeathTestAbort("execve(%s, ...) in %s failed: %s",
+                 args->argv[0], original_dir, strerror(errno));
   return EXIT_FAILURE;
 }
 

src/gtest-filepath.cc

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
 #include <gtest/internal/gtest-filepath.h>
 #include <gtest/internal/gtest-port.h>
 
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
 #ifdef _WIN32_WCE
 #include <windows.h>
 #elif defined(_WIN32)
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #else
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 #endif // _WIN32_WCE or _WIN32
 
 #include <gtest/internal/gtest-string.h>
@@ -66,6 +69,21 @@ const char kPathSeparatorString[] = "/";
 const char kCurrentDirectoryString[] = "./";
 #endif  // GTEST_OS_WINDOWS
 
+// Returns the current working directory, or "" if unsuccessful.
+FilePath FilePath::GetCurrentDir() {
+#ifdef _WIN32_WCE
+// Windows CE doesn't have a current directory, so we just return
+// something reasonable.
+  return FilePath(kCurrentDirectoryString);
+#elif defined(GTEST_OS_WINDOWS)
+  char cwd[_MAX_PATH + 1] = {};
+  return FilePath(_getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd)) == NULL ? "" : cwd);
+#else
+  char cwd[PATH_MAX + 1] = {};
+  return FilePath(getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd)) == NULL ? "" : cwd);
+#endif
+}
+
 // Returns a copy of the FilePath with the case-insensitive extension removed.
 // Example: FilePath("dir/file.exe").RemoveExtension("EXE") returns
 // FilePath("dir/file"). If a case-insensitive extension is not

src/gtest-internal-inl.h

@@ -1003,6 +1003,21 @@ class UnitTestImpl : public TestPartResultReporterInterface {
   void AddTestInfo(Test::SetUpTestCaseFunc set_up_tc,
                    Test::TearDownTestCaseFunc tear_down_tc,
                    TestInfo * test_info) {
+    // In order to support thread-safe death tests, we need to
+    // remember the original working directory when the test program
+    // was first invoked.  We cannot do this in RUN_ALL_TESTS(), as
+    // the user may have changed the current directory before calling
+    // RUN_ALL_TESTS().  Therefore we capture the current directory in
+    // AddTestInfo(), which is called to register a TEST or TEST_F
+    // before main() is reached.
+    if (original_working_dir_.IsEmpty()) {
+      original_working_dir_.Set(FilePath::GetCurrentDir());
+      if (original_working_dir_.IsEmpty()) {
+        printf("%s\n", "Failed to get the current working directory.");
+        abort();
+      }
+    }
+
     GetTestCase(test_info->test_case_name(),
                 test_info->test_case_comment(),
                 set_up_tc,
@@ -1083,9 +1098,15 @@ class UnitTestImpl : public TestPartResultReporterInterface {
 #endif  // GTEST_HAS_DEATH_TEST
 
  private:
+  friend class ::testing::UnitTest;
+
   // The UnitTest object that owns this implementation object.
   UnitTest* const parent_;
 
+  // The working directory when the first TEST() or TEST_F() was
+  // executed.
+  internal::FilePath original_working_dir_;
+
   // Points to (but doesn't own) the test part result reporter.
   TestPartResultReporterInterface* test_part_result_reporter_;
 

src/gtest.cc

@@ -3211,6 +3211,12 @@ int UnitTest::Run() {
 #endif  // GTEST_OS_WINDOWS
 }
 
+// Returns the working directory when the first TEST() or TEST_F() was
+// executed.
+const char* UnitTest::original_working_dir() const {
+  return impl_->original_working_dir_.c_str();
+}
+
 // Returns the TestCase object for the test that's currently running,
 // or NULL if no test is running.
 // L < mutex_