re: CVS commit: src/tests/kernel

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, matthew green wrote:

> > > also, root can't attach to pid1 if securelevel is >= 0.
> >
> > To adjust securelevel this test would need to be modified to run under
> > rump ...  We wouldn't want the test to manipulate securelevel of the
> > running system.
>
> s/wouldn't want/*can't* by design have/.
>
> i don't know that running under rump is useful here.  i certainly
> would not trust ptrace tests in a rump to cover it properly.  this
> test should just be skipped if securelevel >= 0.  fact is that
> very few systems run with securelevel these days, so it's a small
> portion of systems that won't have it.

Yeah, rump probably doesn't make much sense here.  Skipping the test 
(with atf_tc_skip(...) of course) is likely the best solution.


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