On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > > On 16 Dec 2016, at 15:52, Zoffix Znet (via RT) > > <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> > One of these tests trigger the firewall popup "security alert" on Windows > > 10 (see attachment): > > > > t\spec\S32-io\rename.t ............................................ ok > > t\spec\S32-io\slurp.t ............................................. ok > > t\spec\S32-io\socket-accept-and-working-threads.t ................. ok > > t\spec\S32-io\socket-recv-vs-read.t ............................... ok > > t\spec\S32-io\spurt.t ............................................. ok > > > > Not sure if we can do anything about it, but if it's possible, would be > > nice not to > > trigger any unnecessary warnings and alerts for people running the > > tests.<Untitled.png> > > FWIW, a similar pop up occurs on MacOS. But it’s for starting up a listening > socket. So, eh, not sure how you can test network functions without it? Is the popup for any listening socket, or only for those bound to external addresses? If the latter, then is the test binding to the default address (which IIRC is all interfaces), and hence can the warning be fixed by explicitly binding only to localhost? Nicholas Clark
