be called at the end of each test that spawns children (perhaps it
should be called from regrtest instead?). This will hopefully prevent
some of the unexplained failures in the buildbots (hppa and alpha)
during tests that spawn children. The problems were not reproducible.
There were many zombies that remained at the end of several tests.
In the worst case, this shouldn't cause any more problems,
though it may not help either. Time will tell.
is that the wait is failing for some reason. Use WNOHANG, so we won't
wait until the buildbot kills the test suite.
I haven't been able to reproduce the failure, so I'm not sure if
this will help or not. Hopefully, this change will cause the test
to fail, rather than hang. That will be better since we will get
the rest of the test results. It may also help us debug the real problem.
This was a fair amount of rework of the patch. Refactored test_fork1 so it
could be reused by the new tests for wait3/4. Also made them into new style
unittests (derive from unittest.TestCase).
and replaces them with a new API verify(). As a result the regression
suite will also perform its tests in optimization mode.
Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
Minor updates for BeOS R5.
Use of OSError in test.test_fork1 changed to TestSkipped, with corresponding
change in BeOS/README (by Fred).
This closes SourceForge patch #100978.
Instead of assuming that the number process ids of the threads is the
same as the process id of the controlling process, use a copy of the
dictionary and check for changes in the process ids of the threads
from the thread's process ids in the parent process. This makes the
test make more sense on systems which assign a new pid to each thread
(i.e., Linux).
This doesn't fix the other problems evident with this test on Linux.
Neal Norwitz
Barry Warsaw
Guido van Rossum
Moshe Zadka
Marc-André Lemburg
Fred Drake
Thomas Wouters