[LLVMdev] Windows development and "virus" in LLVM test suite

[Mikael Lyngvig]

Sounds like a great idea.  On Windows there are so many types of antivirus
solutions, that it is impossible to provide a detailed description of how
to add an ignored folder for all of them.

-- A Windows user only for the games.

2012/6/15 Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov>

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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chandler Carruth" <chandlerc at google.com>
> > To: "Mikael Lyngvig" <mikael at lyngvig.org>
> > Cc: "LLVMdev Mailing List" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:00:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Windows development and "virus" in LLVM test suite
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Mikael Lyngvig < mikael at lyngvig.org >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > 1. I can't tell Microsoft Security Essentials to ignore anything. Even
> > if I click Allow, it breaks the pull.
> > 2. The issue is not me. I don't download virus infested stuff and I
> > don't visit dangerous sites so I rarely have a need for antivirus
> > solutions.
> >
> >
> > The issue is the newcomer Windows user whom I have to instruct to
> > disable and/or remove his antivirus program if he or she wants to set
> > up a Windows buildbot slave. A bit drastic, but that's life as it is
> > now.
> >
> >
> > At a fundamental level, I don't see easy ways to fix this.
> >
> >
> > A major user of LLVM is an anti-virus software suite.
> >
> >
> > A reasonable test case for them is to detect, well, a virus.
> >
> >
> > A reasonable use of the test suite (which note is *not* part of the
> > primary LLVM repository!) is to include tests that are a bit tricky to
> > include with LLVM by default either because they take too long to run,
> > have too many host dependencies, have weird license restrictions, etc
> > etc.
> >
> >
> > It's not clear to me that making this optional test suite easier to
> > install on restrictive platforms like Windows with this security
> > software you mention is worth neutering the ClamAV tests run...
>
> Might we also have problems with virus-scanning firewalls? Would it work
> if we XORed the ClamAV test's inputs with something, and then modified the
> test to XOR the results of its reads (to undo the transformation). If that
> is sufficient to get around this issue, then it might be worthwhile.
>
>  -Hal
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