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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-04-16 16:32:49 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-04-16 16:32:49 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 80108,80111,80114-80115 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r80108 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-16 13:23:43 +0100 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 4 lines Add CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION and CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION constants for constr(), and disable test_execvpe_with_bad_program() of test_os if the libc uses linuxthreads to avoid the "unknown signal 32" bug (see issue #4970). ........ r80111 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-16 13:47:52 +0100 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line Keep confstr entries in alphabetical order. ........ r80114 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-16 14:45:35 +0100 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line Issue #4970: move linuxthreads check outside the affected test, and use skipIf ........ r80115 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-16 14:51:27 +0100 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line Don't assume that os.confstr_names exists. ........
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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_os.py16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 0c8e597..6134c93 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ import sys
import shutil
from test import support
+# Detect whether we're on a Linux system that uses the (now outdated
+# and unmaintained) linuxthreads threading library. There's an issue
+# when combining linuxthreads with a failed execv call: see
+# http://bugs.python.org/issue4970.
+if (hasattr(os, "confstr_names") and
+ "CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION" in os.confstr_names):
+ libpthread = os.confstr("CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION")
+ USING_LINUXTHREADS= libpthread.startswith("linuxthreads")
+else:
+ USING_LINUXTHREADS= False
+
# Tests creating TESTFN
class FileTests(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
@@ -566,8 +577,11 @@ class URandomTests(unittest.TestCase):
pass
class ExecTests(unittest.TestCase):
+ @unittest.skipIf(USING_LINUXTHREADS,
+ "avoid triggering a linuxthreads bug: see issue #4970")
def test_execvpe_with_bad_program(self):
- self.assertRaises(OSError, os.execvpe, 'no such app-', ['no such app-'], None)
+ self.assertRaises(OSError, os.execvpe, 'no such app-',
+ ['no such app-'], None)
def test_execvpe_with_bad_arglist(self):
self.assertRaises(ValueError, os.execvpe, 'notepad', [], None)