The hppa ubuntu box sometimes hangs forever in these tests. My guess

is that the wait is failing for some reason.  Use WNOHANG, so we won't
wait until the buildbot kills the test suite.

I haven't been able to reproduce the failure, so I'm not sure if
this will help or not.  Hopefully, this change will cause the test
to fail, rather than hang.  That will be better since we will get
the rest of the test results.  It may also help us debug the real problem.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/fork_wait.py b/Lib/test/fork_wait.py
index 5600bdb..7eb55f6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/fork_wait.py
+++ b/Lib/test/fork_wait.py
@@ -34,7 +34,14 @@ class ForkWait(unittest.TestCase):
                 pass
 
     def wait_impl(self, cpid):
-        spid, status = os.waitpid(cpid, 0)
+        for i in range(10):
+            # waitpid() shouldn't hang, but some of the buildbots seem to hang
+            # in the forking tests.  This is an attempt to fix the problem.
+            spid, status = os.waitpid(cpid, os.WNOHANG)
+            if spid == cpid:
+                break
+            time.sleep(2 * SHORTSLEEP)
+
         self.assertEquals(spid, cpid)
         self.assertEquals(status, 0, "cause = %d, exit = %d" % (status&0xff, status>>8))