On 20/08/2016 23:15, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:05:26PM +0200, Val Lorentz wrote: > >> On 20/08/2016 22:45, Santiago Vila wrote: >>> AFAIK, it's the dynamic linker (ld.so) who shows the error, not ping >>> itself. >> >> Probably because ping uses setuid. >> http://stackoverflow.com/a/11148167/539465 > > Actually, in Debian it's no longer setuid as it uses capabilities > instead: > > # ls -l /bin/ping > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57048 ago 20 22:43 /bin/ping > # getcap /bin/ping > /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep > > (But I have no idea how ld.so behaves regarding capabilities). >
I just added an option to the test suite to skip tests which require ping: https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/commit/5d4fb26f9cef02bafc092924558424def5566d3a It will be included in the next upstream release. Mattia, when do you want me to make that release to include it in Stretch?
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