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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/dos-8x3/test_for.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/dos-8x3/test_for.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/dos-8x3/test_for.py b/Lib/dos-8x3/test_for.py index 67e30df..4fd2662 100644 --- a/Lib/dos-8x3/test_for.py +++ b/Lib/dos-8x3/test_for.py @@ -6,14 +6,24 @@ child after a fork(). On some systems (e.g. Solaris without posix threads) we find that all active threads survive in the child after a fork(); this is an error. +On BeOS, you CANNOT mix threads and fork(), the behaviour is undefined. +That's OK, fork() is a grotesque hack anyway. ;-) [cjh] + """ import os, sys, time, thread +from test_support import TestSkipped + +try: + if os.uname()[0] == "BeOS": + raise TestSkipped, "can't mix os.fork with threads on BeOS" +except AttributeError: + pass try: os.fork except AttributeError: - raise ImportError, "os.fork not defined -- skipping test_fork1" + raise TestSkipped, "os.fork not defined -- skipping test_fork1" LONGSLEEP = 2 |