From 149b1c779781f5688caa746ea9e9f7eed8d44bee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Stinner Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:43:02 +0200 Subject: Use a sleep for test_subprocess timeout test instead of an active loop (while True: pass) to limit race conditions. --- Lib/test/test_subprocess.py | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py index 7d4ca2c..b52d8e8 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py @@ -127,9 +127,10 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase): with self.assertRaises(subprocess.TimeoutExpired) as c: output = subprocess.check_output( [sys.executable, "-c", - "import sys; sys.stdout.write('BDFL')\n" + "import sys, time\n" + "sys.stdout.write('BDFL')\n" "sys.stdout.flush()\n" - "while True: pass"], + "time.sleep(3600)"], # Some heavily loaded buildbots (sparc Debian 3.x) require # this much time to start and print. timeout=3) -- cgit v0.12