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authorMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2015-12-11 05:40:14 (GMT)
committerMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2015-12-11 05:40:14 (GMT)
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Issue #25764: Skip fork failure test when run as root
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_subprocess.py8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index b32ef97..6628512 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -1525,10 +1525,14 @@ class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
[_, hard] = limits
setrlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC, (0, hard))
self.addCleanup(setrlimit, RLIMIT_NPROC, limits)
- # Forking should raise EAGAIN, translated to BlockingIOError
- with self.assertRaises(BlockingIOError):
+ try:
subprocess.call([sys.executable, '-c', ''],
preexec_fn=lambda: None)
+ except BlockingIOError:
+ # Forking should raise EAGAIN, translated to BlockingIOError
+ pass
+ else:
+ self.skipTest('RLIMIT_NPROC had no effect; probably superuser')
def test_args_string(self):
# args is a string