From ef2bd67e2364ef92dab03442c07864a3a5e90b85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Charles-Fran=C3=A7ois=20Natali?= <cf.natali@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:52:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #16762: Fix some test_subprocess failures on NetBSD and
 OpenBSD: kill() returns ESRCH for a zombie process, which is not
 POSIX-compliant.

---
 Lib/test/test_subprocess.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 38844888fdb..69384ba0f49 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -892,6 +892,8 @@ class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         getattr(p, method)(*args)
         return p
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform.startswith(('netbsd', 'openbsd')),
+                     "Due to known OS bug (issue #16762)")
     def _kill_dead_process(self, method, *args):
         # Do not inherit file handles from the parent.
         # It should fix failures on some platforms.