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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 /Misc | |
| 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.
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@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ Library - Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed. +- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread + when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that. + Build ----- |