A bunch of tweaks to improve coverage

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/test/test_process.py b/test/test_process.py
index 2d92603..27f2cf2 100644
--- a/test/test_process.py
+++ b/test/test_process.py
@@ -369,8 +369,11 @@ class ProcessTest(CoverageTest):
         self.assertNotIn("Exception", out)
 
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):   # This only works on 3.x for now.
-        # It only works with the C tracer.
-        if os.getenv('COVERAGE_TEST_TRACER', 'c') == 'c':
+        # It only works with the C tracer, 
+        c_tracer = os.getenv('COVERAGE_TEST_TRACER', 'c') == 'c'
+        # and if we aren't measuring ourselves.
+        metacov = os.getenv('COVERAGE_COVERAGE', '') != ''
+        if c_tracer and not metacov:        # pragma: not covered
             def test_fullcoverage(self):
                 # fullcoverage is a trick to get stdlib modules measured from
                 # the very beginning of the process. Here we import os and