On 07Oct2011 13:42, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | >On 06Oct2011 04:26, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: | >| On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:46 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: | >| > Surely VERY FEW tests need to be run as root, and they need careful | >| > consideration. The whole thing (build, full test suite) should | >| > not run as root. | >| | This is news to me - is most of Python not supported to run as | >root? | >| I was under the impression that Python was supposed to run correctly as | >| root, and therefore there should be some buildbots dedicated to running | >| it that way. If only a few small parts of the API are supposed to work | >| perhaps this should be advertised more clearly in the documentation? | > | >Pretending the snark to be slightly serious: you've missed the point. | >The builtbots are building unreliable code, that being the point of the | >test suite. Doing unpredictable stuff as root is bad juju. | | Sorry Cameron, it seems to me that you have missed the point, not | Glyph.
We're probably both aiming badly. See my reply to Andrew Bennetts; I'm less concerned if his described scenario is typical. [...snip...] | Doing unpredictable stuff as root on a production machine is bad | juju. Doing unpredictable stuff as root in order to find out what it | will do *before* putting it into production is absolutely vital. Yes yes yes. | >Running the builtbots and their tests should not be run as root except | >for a very few special tests, and those few need careful consideration | >and sandboxing. | | Are you suggested that they aren't currently sandboxed? No, but it was my instinctive fear. Please see my reply to Andrew Bennetts. I find nothing to disagree with in your reply. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The word is not the thing. The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing symbolized. - S.I. Hayakawa _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
