Re: CVS commit: src/tests/syscall

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:18:52AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:05:19AM +0200, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> > Adding the following to the testcase header should do the trick:
> > 
> >        atf_tc_set_md_var(tc,"require.user","unprivileged");
> > 
> > In that case, if run as root, it will lower its privileges to the
> > unprivileged user _atf before running the test.
> 
> Thanks, that indeed does the job.
> 
> If I may express my humble opinion, there seems to be currently way too much
> weird macro-magic and undocumented calls in atf(7)...

Meta-data properties, like this one, are already described in
atf-test-case(4) man page.

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Nicolas Joly

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