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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_threading.py | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 3 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py index ce25d8d745..cc9da0582b 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py @@ -277,6 +277,12 @@ class ThreadJoinOnShutdown(unittest.TestCase): import os if not hasattr(os, 'fork'): return + # Skip platforms with known problems forking from a worker thread. + # See http://bugs.python.org/issue3863. + if sys.platform in ('freebsd4', 'freebsd5', 'freebsd6', 'os2emx'): + print >>sys.stderr, ('Skipping test_3_join_in_forked_from_thread' + ' due to known OS bugs on'), sys.platform + return script = """if 1: main_thread = threading.currentThread() def worker(): @@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ Extension Modules Tests ----- +- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread + when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that. + - Issue #3261: test_cookielib had an improper file encoding specified. - Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no |