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.