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--- Comment #5 from Henrik Krohns <apa...@hege.li> --- (In reply to Sidney Markowitz from comment #4) > (In reply to Kevin A. McGrail from comment #1) > > Just one note that I believe the root flag was added back when the tests > > would possibly slam a production instance of something like spamd running on > > the same system on the same port. > > I'm open to the argument that having to set the run_root_tests flag in > config.dist or run using prove with a --override will be useful to ensure > that someone does not unthinkingly run sudo make test TEST_FILES="t/root*.t" > or even sudo make test on a production server. > > I personally wouldn't do it, but I'm not a sysadmin in a production > environment, so what do I know? Regardless of any flags, the tests should be made sure they won't affect any external spamd or write things outside of test directory. At quick glance, only spamd_prefork_stress* makes a dumb generic "pkill -f spamd child". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
