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

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/gtest/internal/gtest-filepath.h b/include/gtest/internal/gtest-filepath.h
index 308a2c64..fecdddcc 100644
--- a/include/gtest/internal/gtest-filepath.h
+++ b/include/gtest/internal/gtest-filepath.h
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ class FilePath {
   String ToString() const { return pathname_; }
   const char* c_str() const { return pathname_.c_str(); }
 
+  // Returns the current working directory, or "" if unsuccessful.
+  static FilePath GetCurrentDir();
+
   // Given directory = "dir", base_name = "test", number = 0,
   // extension = "xml", returns "dir/test.xml". If number is greater
   // than zero (e.g., 12), returns "dir/test_12.xml".
@@ -91,6 +94,9 @@ class FilePath {
                                          const FilePath& base_name,
                                          const char* extension);
 
+  // Returns true iff the path is NULL or "".
+  bool IsEmpty() const { return c_str() == NULL || *c_str() == '\0'; }
+
   // If input name has a trailing separator character, removes it and returns
   // the name, otherwise return the name string unmodified.
   // On Windows platform, uses \ as the separator, other platforms use /.