multi-jobs run-tests.php

Hi, I've spent the last hours working on making run-tests.php be able to run tests in parallel. The main reason being the time it takes to run the whole testsuite even on multicore CPUs. Attached is the first set of changes needed. It uses pcntl's fork and sysvmsg to send some of the results back to the parent process. Main functionalities still work, but the summary doesn't include failed tests. I plan to move away from sysvmsg because with the current implementation killing the parent process can leave message queues open (nothing that can't be fixed by adding a proper exit handler) and sysvmsg is not enabled by default. Probably to something php://memory-based. To support all the features under multi-jobs mode I think the proper fix is to cleanup the code so that run_test() stores the state information via an interface. This would make the code cleaner and would let multi-jobs mode just change the state-storing interface. How should I handle this? just by committing the changes? first sending them here (to internals)? by contacting somebody else? Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert

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