bpo-37421: multiprocessing tests now stop ForkServer (GH-14601)

multiprocessing tests now stop the ForkServer instance if it's
running: close the "alive" file descriptor to ask the server to stop
and then remove its UNIX address.

diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/forkserver.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/forkserver.py
index 9b6398671dbc5e08fd60e5461240d82a86e5d9b2..87ebef6588acd3db346224630c9e0cc8c560a12a 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/forkserver.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/forkserver.py
@@ -39,6 +39,25 @@ class ForkServer(object):
         self._lock = threading.Lock()
         self._preload_modules = ['__main__']
 
+    def _stop(self):
+        # Method used by unit tests to stop the server
+        with self._lock:
+            self._stop_unlocked()
+
+    def _stop_unlocked(self):
+        if self._forkserver_pid is None:
+            return
+
+        # close the "alive" file descriptor asks the server to stop
+        os.close(self._forkserver_alive_fd)
+        self._forkserver_alive_fd = None
+
+        os.waitpid(self._forkserver_pid, 0)
+        self._forkserver_pid = None
+
+        os.unlink(self._forkserver_address)
+        self._forkserver_address = None
+
     def set_forkserver_preload(self, modules_names):
         '''Set list of module names to try to load in forkserver process.'''
         if not all(type(mod) is str for mod in self._preload_modules):

diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
index af5b91d17e758af26e835c71696bf1d1cf9f3aa8..9a39f385952fae05338046d0fcfbe786d5c5ca79 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -5650,7 +5650,13 @@ def install_tests_in_module_dict(remote_globs, start_method):
         # Sleep 500 ms to give time to child processes to complete.
         if need_sleep:
             time.sleep(0.5)
+
         multiprocessing.process._cleanup()
+
+        # Stop the ForkServer process if it's running
+        from multiprocessing import forkserver
+        forkserver._forkserver._stop()
+
         # bpo-37421: Explicitly call _run_finalizers() to remove immediately
         # temporary directories created by multiprocessing.util.get_temp_dir().
         multiprocessing.util._run_finalizers()

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-05-14-47-55.bpo-37421.n8o2to.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-05-14-47-55.bpo-37421.n8o2to.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..136faa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-07-05-14-47-55.bpo-37421.n8o2to.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+multiprocessing tests now stop the ForkServer instance if it's running: close
+the "alive" file descriptor to ask the server to stop and then remove its UNIX
+address.