7 Apr
2009
7 Apr
'09
2:51 p.m.
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 10:39 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
The former (call netcf) is problematic in that many netcf functions make changes to the real live network config (which I don't think is a very nice thing to have in test code, but maybe I'm being over-cautious) and netcf doesn't have provisions for a test mode where changes made to the config aren't committed.
The ncf_init call takes a 'root' argument which determines what netcf considers the fs root ('/' by default) It won't ever touch files outside of that root, i.e. you can use that to set up a sandbox. There's one smallwrinkle in that it will run iptables unconditionally (which fails if you don't run your tests as root) - but I could change the code to not do that. David