Tests failing on OSX

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Francois Gouget wrote:
[...]
> 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)?

I have done some tests with netcat that confirm this theory for Mac OS X 
Leopard, Windows XP and Windows 7 (so I guess it also holds for Windows 
2003, Vista and 2008). That's one less worry. I have updated the Wiki 
accordingly.



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