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  r75236 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-04 19:38:39 +0100 (Sun, 04 Oct 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #7042:  Fix test_signal failure on OS X 10.6 64-bit builds
  (and also, with luck, on the x86 FreeBSD buildbot), by making sure
  that some user time is used in test_itimer_virtual.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index 5fc4220d1fa7afc67bc1d046d63b3460fed9ce82..4e06a34ca4d4bbae6a3184d0f0993e1aab2e8903 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_signal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
@@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ class ItimerTest(unittest.TestCase):
         signal.setitimer(self.itimer, 0.3, 0.2)
 
         for i in range(100000000):
+            # use up some virtual time by doing real work
+            _ = pow(12345, 67890, 10000019)
             if signal.getitimer(self.itimer) == (0.0, 0.0):
                 break # sig_vtalrm handler stopped this itimer
 

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9b8c820439f32c78f9bafd804ebe8149dd124faf..e673d619b999958b631db04b9b733e3a93b777bd 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ Documentation
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
+
 - Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking
   the proper exceptions that should be raised for missing or improper code
   object bytecode.