wintrust(2/3): Remove a couple tests that fail on a variety of systems (try 2)

Paul Vriens paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 03:13:43 CST 2009


Juan Lang wrote:
>>> I think that these failures are also because of "not enough rights"
>>> (people running winetest as a normal user). So just removing them is
>>> probably not the best approach?
>>>
>> Maybe it's not that there are not enough rights. The common denominator that
>> I see is that all reports/boxes that produce these failures seems to be
>> coming from one person (Ge). Maybe worthwhile checking with him before just
>> removing the tests?
> 
> Perhaps.  The last error didn't change in any of these tests, so I'm
> discinclined to believe it's a permissions issue.  The only change was
> that on some systems the return value is FALSE, whereas on others it's
> TRUE.  I don't think a test that says ok(ret == TRUE || ret == FALSE)
> is worth much, so I removed it.
> 
> In general, I treat this Windows boxes as oracles:  if they behave a
> certain way, then by definition that's allowed behavior.  The only
> exception is when the behavior differs and is clearly broken on older
> machines.  Since in this case, the failures are on relatively new
> machines as well, the tests appear to be flawed.
> 
> Of course, if it's a misconfiguration, I'll reconsider.
> --Juan
> 
Ge confirmed that it's a non-administrator issue on all those boxes. I'll do 
some testing in the nearby future and will probably reintroduce those tests but 
with proper guarding for non-administrators.

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.



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