Tests failing on OSX
Francois Gouget
fgouget at free.fr
Wed Sep 21 05:59:17 CDT 2011
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Ken Thomases wrote:
[...]
> That sounds like Mac OS X's application firewall which is Apple's
> primary firewall instead of a more traditional packet filtering
> firewall. The application firewall is based around which local
> applications and services are trusted to accept in-bound connections
[...]
> You can disable the application firewall in System Preferences
> > Security > Firewall.
Yes that's the one that brings up this dialog. For instance if I run
ws2_32:sock with the firewall enabled I get asked whether I want to
allow 'wineserver' (!) to accept incoming network connections.
Interestingly if I don't answer and look into the firewall configuration
after ws2_32_test.exe is done, I see that wineserver did got added with
'Block incomming connections'. So in the next run I am not asked that
question again but then the connections are presumably really blocked.
A related question is whether it is actually known to have an impact on
the test results or not. Again, looking at the ws_32:sock results I saw
no difference, even over multiple runs. Looking at the full results of a
pair of runs on winetest.org the only difference I saw is an unrelated
failure in d3d9:device.
http://test.winehq.org/data/b6153354dd28c57fb1f92f85df1f1ba751794fc1/index_Mac.html
Is what's saving us that the firewall always allows connections
originating from the local IP address (e.g. 192.168.0.42 to
192.168.0.42)?
Windows XP / Vista / 7 pop up similar dialogs and I don't know if they
cause trouble either. I suspect not and this may be the reason why too.
> Anyway, the application firewall is based on code-signing. The user's
> permission to allow a program to accept incoming connections is tied
> to the program's signature.
[...]
> Since regularly testing Wine entails constantly rebuilding it, the
> signature never survives for long and the system asks for permission
> with every new build.
Exactly. So should the application firewall be causing trouble, the only
solution would be to disable it :-( I guess there's no way to
automatically authorize / sign the application?
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