[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue #11956: Skip test_import.test_unwritable_directory on FreeBSD when run as (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Sat Oct 8 03:40:41 CEST 2011

On 08Oct2011 01:13, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote: | On 08/10/2011 00:19, Terry Reedy wrote: | >On 10/7/2011 6:18 AM, Glyph wrote: | > | >>To sum up what I believe is now the consensus from this thread: | >> | >> 1. Anyone setting up a buildslave should take care to invoke the build | >> in an environment where an out-of-control buildbot, potentially | >> executing arbitrarily horrible and/or malicious code, should not | >> damage anything. Builders should always be isolated from valuable | >> resources, although the specific mechanism of isolation may differ. | >> A virtual machine is a good default, but may not be sufficient; | >> other tools for cutting of the builder from the outside world would | >> be chroot jails, solaris zones, etc. | >> 2. Code runs differently as privileged vs. unprivileged users. | > | >My particular concern with testing as an unprivileged user comes | >from experience with too many (commercial, post-XP) Windows | >programs that only run correctly as admin (without an obvious good | >reason). || It would seem that for this use case it is more important that all | tests pass when run as a non-admin user.

I'm pretty sure that's what Terry meant; if these apps were tested non-admin they wouldn't need to run as "admin (without an obvious good reason".

Cheers,

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

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