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authorR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-04-21 01:51:57 (GMT)
committerR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-04-21 01:51:57 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 80144 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r80144 | r.david.murray | 2010-04-17 01:26:26 -0400 (Sat, 17 Apr 2010) | 8 lines Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 due to platform bug. Two itimer tests and an interprocess signal test fail on FreeBSD 6 if any test that starts a thread runs before test_signal. Since FreeBSD7 does not show this behavior, the bug is most likely a platform bug, so this patch just skips the failing tests on freebsd6. ........
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_signal.py10
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index 6f4a7bf..a7c030e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_signal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ class InterProcessSignalTests(unittest.TestCase):
self.fail("pause returned of its own accord, and the signal"
" didn't arrive after another second.")
+ # Issue 3864, unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
+ @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
+ 'inter process signals not reliable (do not mix well with threading) '
+ 'on freebsd6')
def test_main(self):
# This function spawns a child process to insulate the main
# test-running process from all the signals. It then
@@ -355,6 +359,9 @@ class ItimerTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEqual(self.hndl_called, True)
+ # Issue 3864, unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
+ @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
+ 'itimer not reliable (does not mix well with threading) on freebsd6')
def test_itimer_virtual(self):
self.itimer = signal.ITIMER_VIRTUAL
signal.signal(signal.SIGVTALRM, self.sig_vtalrm)
@@ -376,6 +383,9 @@ class ItimerTest(unittest.TestCase):
# and the handler should have been called
self.assertEquals(self.hndl_called, True)
+ # Issue 3864, unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
+ @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
+ 'itimer not reliable (does not mix well with threading) on freebsd6')
def test_itimer_prof(self):
self.itimer = signal.ITIMER_PROF
signal.signal(signal.SIGPROF, self.sig_prof)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fc3b4c0..100075e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1096,6 +1096,9 @@ Documentation
Tests
-----
+- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
+ if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
+
- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.