From: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:38:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #7042:  Fix test_signal failure on OS X 10.6 64-bit builds
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~422
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=245d915e3ecba012b3d42d750460997e3e0a95d4;p=python

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.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index 43683756d3..df0828dc73 100644
--- 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 xrange(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 bafb0ab5d1..2e052fa34f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1436,6 +1436,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
+
 - Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
   off the trailing 0 in the version number.