> On 15 Dec 2021, at 16:21, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 03:45:23PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> On 2021-12-13 18:14:52 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> I'm with Justin on this one. I would view a script trying to
>>>> mess with /cores as a hostile act.
>
>>> I'm not quite following. This is a ephemeral CI instance?
>
>> As for myself, all I meant is that it's better to write it with zero sudos than
>> one (for the same reason that it's better to write with one than with two).
>
> What I'm concerned about is that it's unsafe to run the script in
> any non-throwaway environment. That doesn't seem desirable.
I don't think anyone should expect any part of the .cirrus.yml script to be
safe or applicable to a local environment, so I think this is something we can
solve with documentation.
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