Issue #14669: Skip multiprocessing connection pickling test on MacOSX

Passing of fds is unreliable on MacOSX, compare issues #6560 and #12958.

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index 089b76fd7a293bafcc6353a48438b93f64a46c30..c87b967faaf4545df5e08707ba6b87b9e8805532 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -1960,6 +1960,8 @@ class _TestPoll(unittest.TestCase):
 # Test of sending connection and socket objects between processes
 #
 
+# Intermittent fails on Mac OS X -- see Issue14669 and Issue12958
+@unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "darwin", "fd passing unreliable on Mac OS X")
 @unittest.skipUnless(HAS_REDUCTION, "test needs multiprocessing.reduction")
 class _TestPicklingConnections(BaseTestCase):