[TIP] mocking a file in /proc

[Johan Olsen]

Hello,

I would solve this by running my program in a chroot environment in some
way. Chroot is used to change the apparent root directory for some running
process and its children. You can then set up a mock /proc under e.g.
/tmp/mock, and run your tests with chroot under pretense that /tmp/mock is
your actual root folder. From python you can do this with os.chroot.

Regards,
Johan Olsén



2017-01-24 14:51 GMT+01:00 David Palao <dpalao.python at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
> I am writing a program that does something based on information read
> from /proc (the target OS is linux). But I have some problems figuring
> out how to mock the /proc filesystem, or at least, some files in it.
>
> The rationale is that I want to change some files inside /proc to
> simulate different configurations of the host computer so that I can
> run my functional tests against those different configurations.
>
> I was thinking in using docker for this task. But
> 1) this is offtopic here :)
> and
> 2) I would like to learn what is the standard way to deal with such
> situations. If there is a "standard way" at all... I mean, what am I
> supposed to do from the point of view of TDD?
>
> I would appreciate if someone with experience in such problems could
> share some advice.
>
> Best,
>
>
> David
>
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