Gendarme.Rules.Portability.FeatureRequiresRootPrivilegeOnUnixRule(2.10)

FeatureRequiresRootPrivilegeOnUnixRule

Assembly: Gendarme.Rules.Portability
Version: 2.10

Description

This rule fires if a feature is used which is, by default, restricted under Unix.

• System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping : This type can only be used by root on Unix systems. As an alternative you can execute the ping command and parse its result.
• System.Diagnostics.Process : The PriorityClass property can only be set to Normal by non-root users. To avoid this problem you can do a platform check before assigning a priority.

Examples

Bad example:

process.PriorityClass = ProcessPriorityClass.AboveNormal;
process.Start ();

Good example:

if (Environment.OSVersion.Platform != PlatformID.Unix) {
    process.PriorityClass = ProcessPriorityClass.AboveNormal;
}
process.Start ();