ntoskrnl tests - where to write them?

[Jeff Latimer]

I have been looking at writing a couple of tests for ntoskrl functions 
but I have had difficulty locating a suitable place.   It sort of looks 
like ntdll/tests is the place  but it is not clear.  Is there a guide 
for locating this one?

Jeff

[Stefan Dösinger]

> I have been looking at writing a couple of tests for ntoskrl functions
> but I have had difficulty locating a suitable place.   It sort of looks
> like ntdll/tests is the place  but it is not clear.  Is there a guide
> for locating this one?

I think the problem with ntoskrnl tests is that they have to come in form of
a Windows device driver. I  think so far Wine and Mingw lack the capability
to build such drivers. Also running such tests will require Admin privileges
on Windows, and impose security problems. (Of course the tests could be
skipped if the user lacks prilvileges to load the test)

[Steven Edwards]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Stefan Dösinger
 wrote:
> > I have been looking at writing a couple of tests for ntoskrl functions
> > but I have had difficulty locating a suitable place.   It sort of looks
> > like ntdll/tests is the place  but it is not clear.  Is there a guide
> > for locating this one?
>
> I think the problem with ntoskrnl tests is that they have to come in form of
> a Windows device driver. I  think so far Wine and Mingw lack the capability
> to build such drivers. Also running such tests will require Admin privileges
> on Windows, and impose security problems. (Of course the tests could be
> skipped if the user lacks prilvileges to load the test)

As far as Mingw goes, I think all you should need is something along
the lines of

-nostartfiles -nostdlib -Wl,--entry,_DriverEntry@8

[Kai Blin]

On Saturday 19 July 2008 05:15:48 Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > I have been looking at writing a couple of tests for ntoskrl functions
> > but I have had difficulty locating a suitable place.   It sort of looks
> > like ntdll/tests is the place  but it is not clear.  Is there a guide
> > for locating this one?
>
> I think the problem with ntoskrnl tests is that they have to come in form
> of a Windows device driver. I  think so far Wine and Mingw lack the
> capability to build such drivers. Also running such tests will require
> Admin privileges on Windows, and impose security problems. (Of course the
> tests could be skipped if the user lacks prilvileges to load the test)

A lot of tests depend on admin privileges, and especially the MSI tests cause 
a lot of clicking on error boxes if you accidently run them as a mundane 
user.

Cheers,
Kai

[Marcus Meissner]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:15:48PM -0500, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > I have been looking at writing a couple of tests for ntoskrl functions
> > but I have had difficulty locating a suitable place.   It sort of looks
> > like ntdll/tests is the place  but it is not clear.  Is there a guide
> > for locating this one?
>
> I think the problem with ntoskrnl tests is that they have to come in form of
> a Windows device driver. I  think so far Wine and Mingw lack the capability
> to build such drivers. Also running such tests will require Admin privileges
> on Windows, and impose security problems. (Of course the tests could be
> skipped if the user lacks prilvileges to load the test)

Umm, we have such drivers built-in... mountmgr.sys for instance.

But yes, getting this to work on Windows will be a pain.

Ciao, Marcus

[Alexander Morozov]

> I have been looking at writing a couple of tests for ntoskrl functions 
> but I have had difficulty locating a suitable place.   It sort of looks 
> like ntdll/tests is the place  but it is not clear.  Is there a guide 
> for locating this one?
>
> Jeff

Now I am working on ntoskrnl tests. I am going to send theirs to wine-patches soon.