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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_os.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_os.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py index 0c8e597..6134c93 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_os.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py @@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ import sys import shutil from test import support +# Detect whether we're on a Linux system that uses the (now outdated +# and unmaintained) linuxthreads threading library. There's an issue +# when combining linuxthreads with a failed execv call: see +# http://bugs.python.org/issue4970. +if (hasattr(os, "confstr_names") and + "CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION" in os.confstr_names): + libpthread = os.confstr("CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION") + USING_LINUXTHREADS= libpthread.startswith("linuxthreads") +else: + USING_LINUXTHREADS= False + # Tests creating TESTFN class FileTests(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): @@ -566,8 +577,11 @@ class URandomTests(unittest.TestCase): pass class ExecTests(unittest.TestCase): + @unittest.skipIf(USING_LINUXTHREADS, + "avoid triggering a linuxthreads bug: see issue #4970") def test_execvpe_with_bad_program(self): - self.assertRaises(OSError, os.execvpe, 'no such app-', ['no such app-'], None) + self.assertRaises(OSError, os.execvpe, 'no such app-', + ['no such app-'], None) def test_execvpe_with_bad_arglist(self): self.assertRaises(ValueError, os.execvpe, 'notepad', [], None) |