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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_subprocess.py | 8 |
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 |