From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:51:09 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpo-31258: test_signal: call waitpid() to prevent zombie process (#3183)
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.14rc1~4
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1460ce5a9325690d8a1913c296a9bba437ff0f39;p=python

bpo-31258: test_signal: call waitpid() to prevent zombie process (#3183)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index 27054f17ba..5cff13a0df 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_signal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
@@ -185,6 +185,9 @@ class InterProcessSignalTests(unittest.TestCase):
                 self.fail('Test deadlocked after %d seconds.' %
                           self.MAX_DURATION)
 
+            # read the exit status to not leak a zombie process
+            os.waitpid(child, 0)
+
 
 @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "win32", "Not valid on Windows")
 class BasicSignalTests(unittest.TestCase):