On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:50:16PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: [ test_fcntl, test_pty and test_openpty failing on SuSe & Caldera Linux ] > Now, it may be that something strange is going on since these are > the "virtual environments" on SourceForge. I'm not sure these are > really the same thing as running those systems. I'm looking at the > script to start SuSE; there's nothing really there but a chroot call; > perhaps there's a kernel/library mismatch? Nope, you almost got it. You were so close, too! It's not a kernel/library thing, it's the chroot call ;) I'm *guessing* here, but it looks like you get a faked privileged shell in a chrooted environment, which isn't actualy privileged (kind of like the FreeBSD 'jail' thing.) It doesn't suprise me one bit that it fails on those three tests. In fact, I'm (delightedly) suprised that it didn't fail more tests! But these three require some close interaction between the kernel, the libc, and the filesystem (instead of just kernel/fs, libc/fs or kernel/libc.) It could be anything: security-checks on owner/mode in the kernel, security-checks on same in libc, or perhaps something sees the chroot and decides that deception is not going to work in this case. If Sourceforge is serious about this virtual environment service they probably do want to know about this, though. I'll see if I can get my SuSe-loving colleague to compile&test Python on his box, and if that works alright, I think we can safely claim this is a Sourceforge bug, not a Python one. I don't know anyone using Caldera, though. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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