From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 21:43:02 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Use a sleep for test_subprocess timeout test
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~2166
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=149b1c779781f5688caa746ea9e9f7eed8d44bee;p=python

Use a sleep for test_subprocess timeout test

instead of an active loop (while True: pass) to limit race conditions.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 7d4ca2cd00..b52d8e8f84 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -127,9 +127,10 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         with self.assertRaises(subprocess.TimeoutExpired) as c:
             output = subprocess.check_output(
                     [sys.executable, "-c",
-                     "import sys; sys.stdout.write('BDFL')\n"
+                     "import sys, time\n"
+                     "sys.stdout.write('BDFL')\n"
                      "sys.stdout.flush()\n"
-                     "while True: pass"],
+                     "time.sleep(3600)"],
                     # Some heavily loaded buildbots (sparc Debian 3.x) require
                     # this much time to start and print.
                     timeout=3)