On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:46:24AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:54:31PM +0100, "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Merijn,
> >
> > > On Tue 24 Feb 2004 12:52, "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> On Tue 24 Feb 2004 11:09, "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> > > Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
> > >> > >
> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >> > > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/ipcsysv.t 1 256 16 32 200.00% 1-16
> > >> > > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/msg.t 0 12 ?? ?? % ??
> > >> > > ../ext/IPC/SysV/t/sem.t 0 12 ?? ?? % ??
> > >> > > ../lib/ExtUtils/t/Install.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ??
> > >> > > ../lib/IPC/SysV.t 1 256 16 32 200.00% 1-16
> > >> > > op/sysio.t 39 1 2.56% 39
> > >> > > op/taint.t 0 12 223 148 66.37% 150-223
> > >> > > 50 tests and 514 subtests skipped.
> > >> > > Failed 7/872 test scripts, 99.20% okay. 107/80975 subtests failed, 99.87%
> > >> > > okay.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > For IPC function without cygipc, the cygserver needs to run during the
> > >> > test runs.
> > >>
> > >> IIRC Yitzchak was about to change the test to skip the test if the server was
> > >> not running.
>
> It might be a while before I have time.
>
> > > Sorry for the speedy follow up
> >
> > > On second though, how feasible is it to
> >
> > > if (cygserver_running ()) {
> > > do_tests ();
> > > }
> > > elif (cygserver_installed ()) {
> > > start_cygserver ();
> > > do_tests ();
> > > stop_cygserver ();
> > > }
> > > else {
> > > skip_tests ();
> > > }
> >
> > > or is this too much of a security risk?
> >
> >
> > Security? I think that is not a problem on a developer box.
> > Would be nice to have this auto-detect feature IMO.
>
> I don't know that it's worth the trouble of differentiating between having
> the server not installed and the server installed but not running (or the
> server installed and running but CYGWIN=server not set), so I'm not inclined
> to worry about it; skipping the tests should be good enough.
In addition, would putting something to start and stop the server
into Test::Smoke would be helpful?
