Changeset b21bf4f in mod_gnutls for test

Timestamp:

Jan 28, 2016, 2:46:58 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Klute <thomas2.klute@…>

Branches:

asyncio, debian/master, debian/stretch-backports, jessie-backports, main, master, proxy-ticket, upstream

Children:

4d2d182

Parents:

29d3311

git-author:

Thomas Klute <thomas2.klute@…> (01/28/16 14:39:10)

git-committer:

Thomas Klute <thomas2.klute@…> (01/28/16 14:46:58)

Message:

configure: Check if creating namespaces is possible

Some Linux distributions (I've observed this on Debian) restrict
unprivileged users' ability to create namespaces, so checking just
whether the "unshare" command is available is not enough: If it is but
the user building mod_gnutls does not have the necessary permissions,
test cases will fail when trying to create their namespaces. Add a
check that tries to actually create a namespace and disable namespace
isolation of tests if it fails.

File:

• test/README (modified) (2 diffs)

test/README

@@ -88 +88 @@
 backend, and there is no technical requirement to use "runtests".
 
-By default (if "unshare" is available and --disable-test-namespaces
-has NOT been passed to configure), each test case is run inside its
-own network namespace. This avoids address and port conflicts with
+By default (if "unshare" is available and has the permissions required
+to create network and user namespaces), each test case is run inside
+its own network namespace. This avoids address and port conflicts with
 other tests as well has the host system.
 
@@ -127 +127 @@
 The first two of these issues are avoided when the tests are isolated
 using network namespaces, which is the default (see "Implementation"
-above).
+above). The ./configure script tries to detect if namespaces can be
+used (some Linux distributions disable them for unprivileged
+users). If this detection returns a false positive or you do not want
+to use namespace isolation for some other reason, you can run
+configure with the --disable-test-namespaces option.
 
 In some situations you may want to see the exact environment as