Transfer and run global explorers in parallel.

cdist/test/exec/remote.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import getpass
 import shutil
 import string
 import random
+import multiprocessing
 
 import cdist
 from cdist import test
@@ -121,6 +122,22 @@ class RemoteTestCase(test.CdistTestCase):
         # test if the payload file is in the target directory
         self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(os.path.join(target, source_file_name)))
 
+    def test_transfer_dir_parallel(self):
+        source = self.mkdtemp(dir=self.temp_dir)
+        # put 8 files in the directory as payload
+        filenames = []
+        for x in range(8):
+            handle, source_file = self.mkstemp(dir=source)
+            os.close(handle)
+            source_file_name = os.path.split(source_file)[-1]
+            filenames.append(source_file_name)
+        target = self.mkdtemp(dir=self.temp_dir)
+        self.remote.transfer_dir_parallel(source, target,
+                                          multiprocessing.cpu_count())
+        # test if the payload files are in the target directory
+        for filename in filenames:
+            self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(os.path.join(target, filename)))
+
     def test_create_files_dirs(self):
         self.remote.create_files_dirs()
         self.assertTrue(os.path.isdir(self.remote.base_path))