Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.

3 files changed, 46 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
index bc8ac44..8dc4b00 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/forking.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import signal
+import errno
 
 from multiprocessing import util, process
 
@@ -128,12 +129,17 @@ if sys.platform != 'win32':
 
         def poll(self, flag=os.WNOHANG):
             if self.returncode is None:
-                try:
-                    pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, flag)
-                except os.error:
-                    # Child process not yet created. See #1731717
-                    # e.errno == errno.ECHILD == 10
-                    return None
+                while True:
+                    try:
+                        pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, flag)
+                    except os.error as e:
+                        if e.errno == errno.EINTR:
+                            continue
+                        # Child process not yet created. See #1731717
+                        # e.errno == errno.ECHILD == 10
+                        return None
+                    else:
+                        break
                 if pid == self.pid:
                     if os.WIFSIGNALED(sts):
                         self.returncode = -os.WTERMSIG(sts)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index fa4865b..05fba7f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -2168,6 +2168,38 @@ class _TestLogging(BaseTestCase):
 #         assert self.__handled
 
 #
+# Check that Process.join() retries if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR
+#
+
+class _TestPollEintr(BaseTestCase):
+
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _killer(cls, pid):
+        time.sleep(0.5)
+        os.kill(pid, signal.SIGUSR1)
+
+    @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(signal, 'SIGUSR1'), 'requires SIGUSR1')
+    def test_poll_eintr(self):
+        got_signal = [False]
+        def record(*args):
+            got_signal[0] = True
+        pid = os.getpid()
+        oldhandler = signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, record)
+        try:
+            killer = self.Process(target=self._killer, args=(pid,))
+            killer.start()
+            p = self.Process(target=time.sleep, args=(1,))
+            p.start()
+            p.join()
+            self.assertTrue(got_signal[0])
+            self.assertEqual(p.exitcode, 0)
+            killer.join()
+        finally:
+            signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, oldhandler)
+
+#
 # Test to verify handle verification, see issue 3321
 #
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index eb30662..3cd2a81 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
+
 - Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
   Patch by Lowe Thiderman.