hi this is mainly for BinGOs as the reports came from his box, but maybe someone here on the list can also give me a hand.
I have some issues with a bunch of smoke reports: For example these two: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/9e50c40c-b1a9-11e3-add5-ed1d4a243164 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/ef9c4b9e-b175-11e3-ae04-8631d666d1b8 In the test I have a fork that launches a web server and then the main process tries to connect to it using Mechanize. The test fails because the main process cannot connect to the web server. In the 0.31 version of the module I tried to recognize if the forked process has failed and stopped running to avoid failures when the box limits the network address but obviously my solution isn't working well. (I used waitpid for that: https://metacpan.org/source/SZABGAB/Dwimmer-0.31/t/lib/Dwimmer/Test.pm#L65 ) I tried the code using low ports where the regular user cannot open the server and the tests were skipped as I hoped. Yet on the test box the tests blow up. It seems the server is launched but the client still cannot connect. Or something completely different :) So how should this test be written so they will be skipped when the box owner does not want ports opened on the machine? Gabor
