Re: [Python-Dev] Running the unit test as root/administrator

2013-12-03 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
Just don't run it on Windows... On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I would be rather worried about some accidental Trojen running that way. > > ___ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mai

Re: [Python-Dev] Running the unit test as root/administrator

2013-12-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Dec2013 08:25, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I would be rather worried about some accidental Trojen running that way. Or even just a badly framed clean-up-temp-files step. -- Cameron Simpson manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the she

Re: [Python-Dev] Running the unit test as root/administrator

2013-12-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
I would be rather worried about some accidental Trojen running that way. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-

[Python-Dev] Running the unit test as root/administrator

2013-12-03 Thread Vajrasky Kok
Greetings, comrades! Having handled these two issues personally: http://bugs.python.org/issue19877 - test related with symlink fails on Windows Vista with administrator account (in Windows NT 6, only account in administrator group can create symlink) http://bugs.python.org/issue18678 - bug in spw

Re: [Python-Dev] test_bind_port and test_find_unused_port fail due to missing SO_REUSEPORT when building Python 3.3.2-r2 (from portage) on 3.7.10-gentoo-r1 kernel

2013-12-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
Hi Reuben, Thanks for reporting this. I've had a similar report recently in the Tulip tracker (http://code.google.com/p/tulip/issues/detail?id=89). But the problem seems with the use of SO_REUSEPORT in the test.support package's bind_port() helper. This really belongs in the Python issue tracker

[Python-Dev] test_bind_port and test_find_unused_port fail due to missing SO_REUSEPORT when building Python 3.3.2-r2 (from portage) on 3.7.10-gentoo-r1 kernel

2013-12-03 Thread Reuben Garrett
Greetings, learned Python devs! Apologies in advance if my message is misdirected. I'm building Python 3.3.2-r2 from Gentoo's Portage tree [1] and encountered two failed tests which probably should not have been attempted on my OS (Gentoo 3.7.10): test_bind_port and test_find_unused_port both use