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  r87233 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-12-14 06:38:00 -0800 (Tue, 14 Dec 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
  OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
  or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 2379b3e..adf00a5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -793,6 +793,17 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
                 stdout = stdout.rstrip(b'\n\r')
                 self.assertEqual(stdout, value_repr)
 
+        def test_wait_when_sigchild_ignored(self):
+            # NOTE: sigchild_ignore.py may not be an effective test on all OSes.
+            sigchild_ignore = support.findfile("sigchild_ignore.py",
+                                               subdir="subprocessdata")
+            p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, sigchild_ignore],
+                                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+            stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+            self.assertEqual(0, p.returncode, "sigchild_ignore.py exited"
+                             " non-zero with this error:\n%s" % stderr)
+
+
     #
     # Windows tests
     #