[wp-unit-tests] [WordPress Unit Tests] #105: Prevent deadlock when debugging with xDebug

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#105: Prevent deadlock when debugging with xDebug
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 Reporter:  scribu        |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Implement New Test Runner
Component:  Admin Screen  |   Keywords:
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 Originally reported here: https://github.com/nb/wordpress-tests/issues/27

 In `wordpress-tests/init.php`, there's a `system(php ...)` call. When I
 remote-debug my unit test suite, the external PHP process that's created
 by that `system(php ...)` call attempts to connect to the debugger. But
 the debugger is blocked — the parent PHP process is already open in the
 debugger (executing the `system` call).

 So both PHP processes hangs / deadlocks forever.

 A solution, that works for me anyway (with Ubuntu Linux), is to prepend
 'XDEBUG_CONFIG="remote_enable=Off" ' to the PHP command. That is, change
 from:

 ```
 system( WP_PHP_BINARY . ' ' . escapeshellarg( dirname( __FILE__ ) .
     '/bin/install.php' ) . ' ' . escapeshellarg( $config_file_path ) );
 ```

 to:

 ```
 $install_blog_cmd =
         'XDEBUG_CONFIG="remote_enable=Off" ' .
         WP_PHP_BINARY .
         ' ' . escapeshellarg( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/bin/install.php' ) .
         ' ' . escapeshellarg( $config_file_path );
 system( $install_blog_cmd );
 ```

 But I don't know what MS Windows would think about that. Perhaps it'd be
 possible to invoke a shell script or a .bat script that work on both
 Linux/Mac and Windows.

 Thanks for building wordpress-test by the way, it seems really useful! :-)
 Best regards, KajMagnus

 (PS. Here is a wordpress.stackexchange.com question about this, that I've
 marked as solved. http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/q/58294/4211 )

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