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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/support.py10
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_io.py4
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/support.py b/Lib/test/support.py
index d089767..97de608 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support.py
@@ -575,10 +575,12 @@ def _is_ipv6_enabled():
IPV6_ENABLED = _is_ipv6_enabled()
-# A constant likely larger than the underlying OS pipe buffer size.
-# Windows limit seems to be around 512B, and many Unix kernels have a 64K pipe
-# buffer size or 16*PAGE_SIZE: take a few megs to be sure. This
-PIPE_MAX_SIZE = 3 * 1000 * 1000
+# A constant likely larger than the underlying OS pipe buffer size, to
+# make writes blocking.
+# Windows limit seems to be around 512 B, and many Unix kernels have a
+# 64 KiB pipe buffer size or 16 * PAGE_SIZE: take a few megs to be sure.
+# (see issue #17835 for a discussion of this number).
+PIPE_MAX_SIZE = 4 *1024 * 1024 + 1
# decorator for skipping tests on non-IEEE 754 platforms
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index e5474f0..44e5cad 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -3069,7 +3069,7 @@ class SignalsTest(unittest.TestCase):
# The buffered IO layer must check for pending signal
# handlers, which in this case will invoke alarm_interrupt().
self.assertRaises(ZeroDivisionError,
- wio.write, item * (support.PIPE_MAX_SIZE // len(item)))
+ wio.write, item * (support.PIPE_MAX_SIZE // len(item) + 1))
t.join()
# We got one byte, get another one and check that it isn't a
# repeat of the first one.
@@ -3168,7 +3168,7 @@ class SignalsTest(unittest.TestCase):
select = support.import_module("select")
# A quantity that exceeds the buffer size of an anonymous pipe's
# write end.
- N = 1024 * 1024
+ N = support.PIPE_MAX_SIZE
r, w = os.pipe()
fdopen_kwargs["closefd"] = False
# We need a separate thread to read from the pipe and allow the
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9018eb6..0222556 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ Library
Tests
-----
+- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
+ than one million bytes.
+
- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).