On Saturday 19 July 2008 05:15:48 Stefan Dösinger wrote: > > I have been looking at writing a couple of tests for ntoskrl functions > > but I have had difficulty locating a suitable place. It sort of looks > > like ntdll/tests is the place but it is not clear. Is there a guide > > for locating this one? > > I think the problem with ntoskrnl tests is that they have to come in form > of a Windows device driver. I think so far Wine and Mingw lack the > capability to build such drivers. Also running such tests will require > Admin privileges on Windows, and impose security problems. (Of course the > tests could be skipped if the user lacks prilvileges to load the test)
A lot of tests depend on admin privileges, and especially the MSI tests cause a lot of clicking on error boxes if you accidently run them as a mundane user. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.
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