Make test_wakeup_write_error more robust

(trying to fix a failure on the FreeBSD 9.0 buildbot)

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index 0564740..3530d8a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_signal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
@@ -313,6 +313,16 @@ class WakeupSignalTests(unittest.TestCase):
         else:
             raise AssertionError("ZeroDivisionError not raised")
         """
+        r, w = os.pipe()
+        try:
+            os.write(r, b'x')
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+        else:
+            self.skipTest("OS doesn't report write() error on the read end of a pipe")
+        finally:
+            os.close(r)
+            os.close(w)
 
         assert_python_ok('-c', code)