Notice of intention to remove tests from KCrash and KNotifications

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Mon Nov 4 12:19:42 GMT 2019


Wouldn't the more appropriate workaround then be to disable the test on windows?

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:57 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:53 PM David Edmundson
> <david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Given kcrashtest passes locally, can you please confirm that by
> > "remove" you mean disable and not remove.
>
> I mean remove.
>
> This test is highly dangerous and enters into a fork loop on Windows,
> necessitating use of an administrator level console prompt to recover
> the system.
> Fortunately the grand-parent process terminates after it's child has
> successfully forked, which is the only thing stopping this test from
> being a fork bomb and totally taking down the system.
>
> >
> > David
>
> Regards,
> Ben


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