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.
Although motived by Cygwin, this patch will prevent
test_commands from failing on Unixes that support
ACLs. For example, the following is an excerpt from
the Solaris ls manpage:
...
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 smith dev 10876 May 16 9:42 part2
The plus sign indicates that there is an ACL associated
with the file.
...
imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".
This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).
Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)
test_commands does not work on IRIX
It assumes the output of "ls /bin/ls" is a line
that starts with a '-'. On IRIX that file is
a symbolic link, so the first character is an l.
This causes test_getstatus to fail.
Georg Brandl
Ezio Melotti
Senthil Kumaran
Benjamin Peterson
Neal Norwitz
Thomas Wouters
Jason Tishler
Guido van Rossum
Barry Warsaw
Martin v. Löwis
Fred Drake