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| author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2008-09-30 20:41:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2008-09-30 20:41:13 (GMT) |
| commit | 0806749e631ab4e24f78df347a9d932bbc3cb6c7 (patch) | |
| tree | c8cab45d2960f3bd4beef7c713c7dc0cc8f4d1c3 /Lib/test/test_threading.py | |
| parent | f40200b21475998b262e2aa0ec5b909ddde34be2 (diff) | |
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Works around issue3863: freebsd4/5/6 and os2emx are known to have OS bugs when
calling fork() from a child thread. This disables that unit test (with a note
printed to stderr) on those platforms.
A caveat about buggy platforms is added to the os.fork documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_threading.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_threading.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py index 4e87437..c8f9cac 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py @@ -380,6 +380,12 @@ class ThreadJoinOnShutdown(unittest.TestCase): import os if not hasattr(os, 'fork'): return + # Skip platforms with known problems forking from a worker thread. + # See http://bugs.python.org/issue3863. + if sys.platform in ('freebsd4', 'freebsd5', 'freebsd6', 'os2emx'): + print >>sys.stderr, ('Skipping test_3_join_in_forked_from_thread' + ' due to known OS bugs on'), sys.platform + return script = """if 1: main_thread = threading.current_thread() def worker(): |