Am 11.06.2014 um 19:08 schrieb David Golden <x...@xdg.me>: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote: >> "Has the user in question granted permission to use the internet". > > I disagree with the premise that one needs to ask. Users are already > running arbitrary Perl code and must take responsibility for anything > that it might do and not run it if it does something they don't want > it to do. > > The only thing that interests me is avoiding hassling people with > failures in cases that have no possibility of success, e.g. connecting > to a host on the Internet when the Internet is fire-walled. > > That's a question of capability, not permission.
I think there're setups where smoke tests run in a private. not routed network segment. While this is uncommon, probably an envvar is the right approach, but it should be one like LOCALTESTS_ONLY instead of NETWORK_IS_AVAILABLE. This allows smokers to disable unwanted network tests. How does that sound? (Maybe I don't understand the concern correctly) Cheers -- Jens Rehsack rehs...@gmail.com
