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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2014-03-17 23:39:04 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2014-03-17 23:39:04 (GMT)
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Issue #20910: Make tests more reliable, less dependent on time
* Tolerate 10 seconds instead of 3 seconds for slow test * Faster test, use sleep of 100 ms instead of 1 sec * Replace a number of iterations with an explicit deadline for the timeout
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_wait3.py b/Lib/test/test_wait3.py
index f6a065d..bb71481 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_wait3.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_wait3.py
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ class Wait3Test(ForkWait):
# This many iterations can be required, since some previously run
# tests (e.g. test_ctypes) could have spawned a lot of children
# very quickly.
- for i in range(30):
+ deadline = time.monotonic() + 10.0
+ while time.monotonic() <= deadline:
# wait3() 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, rusage = os.wait3(os.WNOHANG)