Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using multiprocessing

on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'" idiom.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index 847deb4..ab6d36a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import socket
 import random
 import logging
 import test.support
+import test.script_helper
 
 
 # Skip tests if _multiprocessing wasn't built.
@@ -2429,9 +2430,29 @@ class TestTimeouts(unittest.TestCase):
         finally:
             socket.setdefaulttimeout(old_timeout)
 
+#
+# Test what happens with no "if __name__ == '__main__'"
+#
+
+class TestNoForkBomb(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_noforkbomb(self):
+        name = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'mp_fork_bomb.py')
+        if WIN32:
+            rc, out, err = test.script_helper.assert_python_failure(name)
+            self.assertEqual('', out.decode('ascii'))
+            self.assertIn('RuntimeError', err.decode('ascii'))
+        else:
+            rc, out, err = test.script_helper.assert_python_ok(name)
+            self.assertEqual('123', out.decode('ascii').rstrip())
+            self.assertEqual('', err.decode('ascii'))
+
+#
+#
+#
+
 testcases_other = [OtherTest, TestInvalidHandle, TestInitializers,
                    TestStdinBadfiledescriptor, TestInvalidFamily,
-                   TestTimeouts]
+                   TestTimeouts, TestNoForkBomb]
 
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