Pavel Sanda wrote: > John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> 2009/6/16 Pavel Sanda <[email protected]>: >> > ok i just added it. also tried to assimilate to the new directory >> > structure, please review my patches and send your changes to the code. >> > >> > my idea was that "make keystest" should work for devs out of the box. >> >> I was thinking that it would be best to run it under xnest so that a >> VM is not required. However there still is the issue of protecting the >> user from LyX's random actions. >> 1) The simplest way is to "sudo -u nobody" the test. However this >> requires sudo privileges and willingness to use them. Also I am not >> sure how well an interactive sudo prompt would would with make. >> 2) Plash (plash.beasts.org), Systrace or plasticfs could be used, but >> these are not in the (Ubuntu) repos. >> 3) One could also change $HOME and hope for the best, but I wouldn't >> trust this. >> >> Any opinions on these. > > to use 3 is potentialy dangerous, although its unprobable lyx is able to > to run any external command via lfun or edit any file on your $HOME ;) > > either your VM or create new user under your system and everything runs > there.
Remember to unplug the printer ;-) Asger told me once about a forest that went lost because of a similar project.... A/
