bpo-37421: multiprocessing tests call _run_finalizers() (GH-14527)

multiprocessing tests now call explicitly _run_finalizers() to remove
immediately temporary directories created by
multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir().

diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
index eef262d723daf50777f08b7e86f6c61943c5d9ff..af5b91d17e758af26e835c71696bf1d1cf9f3aa8 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -5651,6 +5651,9 @@ def install_tests_in_module_dict(remote_globs, start_method):
         if need_sleep:
             time.sleep(0.5)
         multiprocessing.process._cleanup()
+        # bpo-37421: Explicitly call _run_finalizers() to remove immediately
+        # temporary directories created by multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir().
+        multiprocessing.util._run_finalizers()
         test.support.gc_collect()
 
     remote_globs['setUpModule'] = setUpModule

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-01-19-57-26.bpo-37421.NFH1f0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-01-19-57-26.bpo-37421.NFH1f0.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..c379b50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-01-19-57-26.bpo-37421.NFH1f0.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+multiprocessing tests now explicitly call ``_run_finalizers()`` to
+immediately remove temporary directories created by tests.