Why rerun your test through prove instead of simply rerunning your test program? That way, whatever harness the user uses will just receive the output from your restarted program...

Also, there is a skip command in Test::More, which is a bit cumbersome to use but outputs a nicer message than a passing test:

use Test::More;

plan tests => 10;

if( $> != 0 ) {
    # re-exec as root:
    # hope we didn't have -Ilib or -Mblib on the invocation line
    exec 'sudo', $0, @ARGV;

    # Also see Devel::PL_origargv
};

if( $> != 0 ) {
SKIP: {
    skip "Must be root", 10;
};
exit;
};

... run tests as root ...

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In reply to Re: Running specific test files with sudo by Corion
in thread Running specific test files with sudo by stevieb

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