Wine test suite (or winrash, don't know which one) - possible way to improve for some persons (with some antivirus or firewall software running)

[Ferenc Wagner]

Tero Tamminen <valeo at phreaker.net> writes:

>> Yes.  But will sticking to a fixed directory name (and
>> possibly file name) help, or does ZoneAlarm check eg. MD5
>> sums to thwart any countermeasure from our side?  Anyway,
>> I have the feeling that this should be solved by
>> configuring ZoneAlarm instead of throwing in kludges.
>> Don't you know if it's possible to disable this warning
>> for an application or a directory?
>
> Actually ZoneAlarm checks MD5 or some other checksum, but
> it can also be configured so, that it doesn't care about
> those.

Fine, so far.  This is absolutely needed, no way around.

> There is option where I can specify that "Athenticate
> program by full path name only"... name says all

I see, thanks for the info.

> Zonealarm only sees that, these programs are launcehd from
> different directory,

I will put in a "try this first" directory name, and fall
back to "random" names if creating that fails.

> they have different checksum,

We can't help this, but it shouldn't pose a problem, right?

> wine-test-whatever executable has different name (because
> date is part of the name),

We can change this, too.

> At least to my knowledge ZoneAlarm can't be configured
> with wildcards, so that it would check only part of the
> executable name.

What a shame.  We'll have to go the "hard" way then.

> But anyway, it is okay to me if you don't want to program
> temp directories not to be random, I just have to disable
> winrash and thus winetests from my win2k3 server.

What would be a shame again, we aren't particularly
overwhelmed with Win2k3 testers.  Hope we can sort it out.
In the meantime just disable winrash if it's too disturbing,
I'll drop you a note once the necessary changes are in place.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.